Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.

This 15-foot former Johnny Appleseed has given up his apples for donuts and coffee.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

One of the largest necropolises in the world is home to a stunning array of historic Middle Eastern tombs.

This Mississippi seminary was the first in America to train Black Catholic priests.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

One of Hungary's most influential places of learning is also home to one of the world's most beautiful libraries.

This Italianate house was the childhood home of the prominent Canadian painter, Emily Carr.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

A Victorian cemetery hidden along a trucking route is all that remains of a 19th century village.

Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

A tower built by an emperor for an antelope.

Twice a day, the water of the Petitcodiac River flows upstream in a surfable wave.

Mostly underground in the old days Back in the USSR, today the Beatles beckon to tourists from a wall sculpture out in the open in central Russia.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

Sweden's oldest animated sign is still lighting up the skyline today.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

A bathhouse from the second Islamic Caliphate decorated with frescoes of constellations, pleasure gardens, and naked ladies.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

A place as enchanting as the journey to reach it is harrowing.