Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

A bygone village occupation lives on via this quaint public chalkboard.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

Possibly the world's largest coin stands just outside of a Canadian science center.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

This tiny Hawaiian island is slowly coming back to life after being bombed during naval training exercises.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

Lady Liberty's original designer installed a little clone in this French fountain.

This Brazilian Lady Liberty is one of the few replicas that was actually made by the original designer.

The largest single concentration of harmless garter snakes in the world is a writhing Canadian serpent orgy.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

This huge industrial sculpture looks like a UFO and a factory had a baby.

The second-largest (of only two in the world) large particle collider is the underdog of experimental physics.