Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

Australia's largest traditional hedge maze features a Great Gnome Hunt.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

A man's home is his castle.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."