Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

A time-capsule monument reminding future generations of the importance of efficient and effective use of natural resources.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

New York's oldest magic store.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.