Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

The most beloved fountain in the center of Guadalajara, Jalisco.

Portugal’s dictatorship sent its political opponents to this remote Cape Verdean prison, known as the “Camp of Slow Death.”

Abandoned palace in Ras Al Khaimah, with a reputation as being haunted, now restored and open as a private museum.

Built as part of the 'Waste to Wonder' campaign, the 26-foot statue is made of more than two tonnes of iron and steel.

The final resting place of Angus MacAskill, the legendary Cape Breton Giant, who stood 7 feet 9 inches tall and was recognized as the world's tallest non-pathological giant.

Home to more than 500 Mi’kmaq petroglyphs depicting centuries of Indigenous life and culture, this sacred site contains one of the largest collections of rock carvings in eastern North America.

Deep within the rugged mountains of Vinh Thanh, this crystal-clear stream meanders through a primeval forest of ancient wild ixora trees protected for generations by the local Ba Na community.

A prison, gun store and more over its life, the history here is fascinating over three floors.

A working art museum inside a psychiatric center where patients create and exhibit paintings, sculptures, installations, and even recorded music in their own studios.

One of the finest surviving Irish tower houses, with 17th-century cannonball scars still lodged in the wall above the entrance.

Behind a row of ordinary D.C. houses hides a labyrinth of interconnected art galleries filled with unusual treasures and outsider art.

Tucked away in an unassuming cemetery lies the grave of Georges Nagelmackers, the founder of the Compagnie des wagons-lits (and thus, of the Orient Express).

A winemaker pioneering submarine fermentation.

Open-air museum of eleven landscapes (ten Dutch ones plus a British one) in miniature.

More than fifty centuries-old religious shrines hide in the walls and above the doorways of Gozo’s capital, and most visitors walk straight past them.

An entire street built on the foundation of the first wall of Amersfoort. It has 61 national heritage sites in the street itself.

A red-brick former uranium-ore sorting facility, located within a communist-era forced-labour camp.

It is an ancient giant’s grave!

Tucked away amongst Leadenhall Market’s cobbled passageways is a whimsical little (literally) attraction.

A witty art installation in an abandoned gas station that became obsolete due to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

A memorial to over 200 “communist suspects” who were incinerated in red petroleum barrels in Lam Sin Thailand in the early 1970s.

St. John's Episcopal Church is one of seven remaining churches with a complete collection of Tiffany Windows.

Curated by a 93-year-old retired Marine veteran.

This museum, which had to relocate in 2014 after being devastated by a storm at sea, houses the best collection of cephalopods in Asturias.