Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.

Guerilla gardeners reclaimed this abandoned railroad land literally putting down roots.

The “Thumb” of Mauritius provides a 360 degree view of the entire country.

Thousands of lawn gnomes have infested this Australian roundabout.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

Tucked away in a small German apartment is an eclectic museum devoted to West African vodun culture.

Visit the WWII bunker where the British won the battle for the skies.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

The remnants of a record-setting industrial bucket system can still be found dotting the Swedish countryside.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

A former suicide bridge is now accumulating symbols of love instead of a body count.

Italy's curious field of mud volcanoes is named for being both gross AND salty.

Tucked away in the Leiden city hall are a group of works by famed artist MC Escher.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

This giant crucifix is like U2's Joshua Tree for Swedish death metal fans.

A steel paper plane is all that remains of a crashed aircraft that caused an amazingly small amount of damage.

One of the largest barracks of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's military is now an abandoned ruin.

Yemen's "Stone Palace" looks like it was carved right out of the tall stone column on which it is built.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

One Greenland town turned itself into an open air sculpture gallery with the help of a series of traditional stone artworks.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.