Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

There is a mouldering Jewish cemetery hidden away in the capital of Moldova.

The true age of this ancient stone circle is unknown, but its stunning vista isn't in question.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

Unlike many reclaimed, abandoned mines, this Canadian cave system is still just a dangerous maze.

This circular Iranian jail was once a political prison run by the country's secret police.

It is against the law to obstruct the view from the top of this English burial mound.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

Where unreadable addresses are read, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

The western-most fortress on the Great Wall of China has gone from a strategic stronghold to a kitschy tourist carnival.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.