Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

These Finnish rapids have been attracting tourists for over a hundred years and are now released with the push of a button.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

A giant gorilla made of used car tires used to sit sentinel over a Helsinki college campus.

A sharply wedged sundial marks the point at which each day in the United States begins.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

The world's first and only escalator for lazy bicycles and their daunted riders.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

The bluer than blue waters in these natural Israeli caves are reached via the world's steepest cable car.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.