Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

These abandoned coal mine towers near Sherwood Forest might soon boast the U.K.’s longest zip-line.

Shaped like a big top tent, this memorial honors the victims of a terrible train wreck.

A small memorial to a deadly night in Serbia that shook the world before it was swept under the rug.

This historic black and white monastery is one of Bulgaria's architectural jewels.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

Crawling into this primordial cave may feel disconcertingly familiar.

This Cambodian riverbed is covered in ancient Hindu carvings both above and below the waters.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

Nestled in the jungles of Vanuatu are the remains of what was once a cannibal oven.