Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

The oldest house in Glasgow is now a museum dedicated to the city's medieval history.

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

These historic buildings once housed the headquarters of one of the most infamous gangs of New York.

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.