Places Added by Daniel McDermon

This Brooklyn curiosity shop has its own magic theater and a singing mechanical bird that sparked an online feud with Kelly Clarkson.

The shelves at this Chattanooga bar are stocked with used books, and buying one sends money back to the library.

Maine’s largest salt marsh hides old roads, drainage ditches, and the remains of a canal once cut through its grasses.

An elegant German-style resort overlooking the Potomoc River.

An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.

A modest Alabama recording studio where some of music’s biggest voices found their sound.

An Illinois prairie preserve where the real show begins after sunset.

On the site of a former Army ammunition plant, bison now roam a restored sea of grass.

A century-old wooden walkway where artists and free spirits have built a funky, countercultural main street.

A blufftop prairie and limestone cliff with 30-mile views across two great rivers and prime bald eagle territory.

A sandstone corridor so narrow that it feels like the wilderness closing in on itself.

A legendary West Hollywood bar where celebrities shoot pool with the locals.

A dazzling work by a Pop art legend hangs in one of the world’s busiest subway stations.

You’ll never see the sky the same way after visiting this art installation in Tempe.

Glass-walled, mid-century modern showroom for cars, still in operation.