Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

This highway overpass was named after the tragic disappearance of a young mother who got mixed up with the wrong people.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.

Since ancient times these picturesque springs have been providing bathers with healing waters.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

This spacecraft-shaped water tower is only a part of the mysterious UFO mania in this Brazilian town.

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.