Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

This phantom island appeared on maps for over a century before amateur radio enthusiasts beat Google Earth to the punch in its "undiscovery."

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

This giant wire frame man sculpture is crouched in contemplation.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

The second tallest railway trestle bridge in America.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

Nepal's first aviation museum found a logical home in the most unexpected place.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

A top secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath a Latvian spa facility is now open for tours.

This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.

If God were a skater, this would clearly be His park of choice.

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.