Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

This alley-cum-fan gallery in the ex-Nirvana drummer's hometown holds the world's largest drumsticks.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

The longest trolleybus route in the world, from Simferopol and Yalta.

The remains of a medieval wall discovered in the basement of a jewelry store.

This magnificent Crimean estate was once a playground of the Russian elite.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

One of the windiest peaks in Crimea is home to an incredible set of cable bridges.

These Australian rock formations look like Martian beehives that have grown up out of the landscape.

One of the world's oldest trees comes with a Welsh legend intertwining it with a spirit prophesying death.

Within this beautiful Pittsburgh cemetery, a unique headstone bears witness to one man's eternal love for Jaws.

Two massive boulders, rocking back and forth with the ebbing of the sea.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

One of Australia's famed "Big Things," this giant fruit was once stolen as part of a publicity stunt.