Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Despite being dead since the 1970s, this Canadian tree is kept upright and intact by adoring locals.

This remote castle was built to be a wealthy businessman's palace of vice but is now simply a historic vacation cottage.

A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.

A singular collection of hand-built art deco cars are held in a building with style to match.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.

This uber-quaint Polish village is known for its habit of painting elaborate floral motifs on just about everything.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

The final resting place for Bermuda's British military, including a man who died of sunstroke.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

This spacecraft-shaped water tower is only a part of the mysterious UFO mania in this Brazilian town.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

Explore some of the most unique vehicles in history along with a cast of unsettling mannequins.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.