Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

Home to the story of the outlaw turned funhouse mummy, Elmer McCurdy.

After he picked up a brush at the age of 47 this simple barber turned his entire home into a canvas.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

Welcome to the world's only museum dedicated to the Ukranian Easter egg.

Francis Julius LeMoyne built this crematory in 1876; he was the third person to be cremated here.

The massive, original Colgate Clock is mounted on a defunct factory building that was once a prison.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.

Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.

Religious perseverance and cultural coexistence manifest in an architectural gem that multiple wars couldn't topple.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Germany has its very own Centralia, whose spark remains attributed to "spontaneous combustion."

This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.

This 1920s Amsterdam neighborhood was built as a giant experiment in concrete construction.

After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.

A magnificent, iconic stone tower in the Scottish Highlands.

Canada's accused-traitor-turned-folk-hero is buried under a red stone in a ring of his own.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

An experimental forest at the foreground of arboreal science is also the canary in the coal mine for climate change.

These centuries old gardens have been restored to their 17th century condition.