Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Climb right into the heart of this colorful Iceland volcano.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.