Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

A Norwegian church that was built before Wisconsin was even a state has been entirely moved to a nicer spot.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

This sprawling Belgian fort was once thought of as impenetrable but now it is simply an abandoned relic.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

Nailing a coin to this holy stump is just another way to ask the gods for relief from dental pain.

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

This hidden natural fountain issues forth a steady supply of supposedly healing water that tastes like rotten eggs.

This Danish art forest places loud works of contemporary art among the pensive silence of nature.

Home of Dutchy, an exhumed Confederate statue that was once torn down by an angry mob for looking stupid.

The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.

This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

The largest cemetery in Louisville is the final resting place of Col. Sanders and Muhammad Ali.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

Underneath the city that invented pilsners are a series of historic tunnels that have been storing beer for centuries.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

The simple log cabin of a famed loner and naturalist stands preserved as a symbol of the ultimate DIY lifestyle.

This small shrine is dedicated to the designer of the first Russian fighter jet and his brother, who became Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.