Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

Go inside a revolutionary, cage-less zoo where 35 species live and some of them roam free alongside their human visitors.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

This water-locked cliff face is covered in hundreds of ancient pictographs.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

This trio of stone spires claims to be the only preserved medieval execution site in Europe.

An ornate plague column – built to celebrate life – claimed the lives of numerous artisans during its construction.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

Helen Keller once broke ground on this historic center for the study of technologies to benefit the hearing impaired.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

This tri-part waterfall is a little bit of fairytale beauty in the heart of Luxembourg's Little Switzerland.

Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!

The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

One man and his wife have turned a barren Korean island into a fantastical botanical wonderland.

The mysterious remains of a martyred teenage saint are venerated inside a small country chapel.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.