Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

From buck blood to Theriak miracle tonic, this collection of Renaissance chemist's gear look's like a wizard's pantry.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

In its continuing quest to recreate famous parts of the world in miniature, China now has its own ghost Paris.

Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

The oldest (maybe) swimming pool in Iceland is a stunning oasis built into the side of a lush hill.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

A lecture hall sink once used by Einstein and other noted physicists is now regarded as a strange science relic.

This sensational Chinese temple walks visitors through the 76 weird departments of the afterlife.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

This historic Chinese tower was said to have been haunted by fox spirits but is now haunted by a grisly murder.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

The greatest amusement park in the world is wall-to-wall farting dogs, puking rats, and cows with exposed breasts for the whole family.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

A small Denmark town displays a pair of titanic jaw bones as their community symbol.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.