Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Rising out of a clearing in New Jersey's Pine Barrens is an Aztec-inspired monument to the "Lindbergh of Mexico."

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This small red school was where Germany signed their surrender during WWII.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.

This small Bavarian graveyard is filled with empty graves for German soldiers lost during the World Wars.

This public park was the site of the largest civilian disaster of the Civil War.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.