Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

The Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Stranger is buried beneath a simple gravestone in a sleepy French village.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

Every four years, millions of salmon fill a river so densely that its waters appear deep crimson.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

This modern medieval weapon of war was built to toss pumpkins.

This fortress in Honduras was built to resist pirates, but its builders had more to fear from the British.

The saltiest lake in all of Crimea is also the pinkest of the pink and teeming with life.

An abandoned faux-pub made famous by a Guinness commercial.

It might not be the prettiest pyramid in Egypt, but it may be the muddiest.

The giant scales in this museum can still tell if someone is one of the devil's brides just by weight.

This island hill is strewn with boulders carved by shipwreck victims from the age of sail.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

Halloween spirit is alive and well in this small town, where residents race motorized caskets in a yearly tradition.

Just a few miles off the western coast of Ireland lies an isle steeped in Irish literary history.

A muddy alien landscape that is home to rare species of exotic plants.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this Santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

Leave the wardrobes and sweets to British schoolchildren, Shanghai's got a Coke machine that leads to booze.

This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.

This enchanting rainforest hotel looks as though it grew from the forest itself.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

There might not be much left of these Irish ruins, but their linguistic legacy is still going strong.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

A secret Virgin Mary tucked away on a Brazilian beach.