Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

A giant lumpy candle serves as a beacon for this highly scented pit stop.

Its humdrum facade only adds to its electrifying appeal: a rooftop with panoramic views of a shapeshifting metropolis.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

The oldest brick house in the state of Ohio.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

The star-studded street honors the city's most notable Brummies.

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

A haunting collection of sunken wooden barges litters this Italian river bend.

The sign marks one of the endpoints to mainland Britain's longest overland travel route.

This Italian museum is a one-of-a-kind celebration of printing and type.

These magnificently sculpted tombs represent Spain's own legendary version of "Romeo and Juliet."

This Estonian watchtower looks like a big tree with two giant bird nests on it, complete with a "golden egg."

A menagerie of curiously bred creatures.

During World War II, the Nazis repurposed this beer cellar to store stolen artwork.

A fortress off the West coast of Portugal that dates back to 1502.

Get hands on with the technological marvels of the Classical world.

Classical ruins that remember ancient Rome's presence in Africa.

Get up close with some alligators at this roadside farm attraction.

This metal disk commemorates the birth of a historic American holiday.