Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.

A mother's mourning for her lost son is remembered in this small park embedded with his memory.

Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Take a cruise with no movement but plenty of style in this one-of-a-kind boat mall.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

These mysterious ancient stone spheres were created by a civilization lost to time and are now mostly lawn ornaments.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Local legend says that whoever burns down this 2,000-year-old tree will only have seven days to live.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.