Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

According to legend, this boat-shaped henge is built over the grave of a mythic king.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

The largest oak in England is said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

The first space rock known to have struck a human.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.