Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

Thousands of costumed dolls fill one of the world's creepiest museums.

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.