Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

English-speaking soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II, before the town’s name changed.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.