Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

This was once the home of Gahan's Saloon, Denver's most storied speakeasy.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

A gated cross stands on the site where an Irish revolutionary met his end.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

The nude sculpture on this fountain shocked conservative townsfolk when it was first unveiled, but not as much as the dead body found in it decades later.

Hang out with thousands of butterflies in one of the world's largest such enclosures.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

This mysterious underground cave in Shropshire dates back to the 18th or 19th century.

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past

The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.

What was once the largest NFL stadium.

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

The inventor of the iconic Pringles can was so proud of his invention he was buried in one.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

This roundabout was renamed in honor of the Swedish king's royal fender-bender.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.