Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

Bohol's unusually shaped hills turn brown in the summer months.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

An architectural marvel that spans the Arda River, and has stories of a haunted past.