Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

This gray utility box is not full of wires; it is a tiny, operational theater hiding on a Downtown Los Angeles sidewalk.

The literal midpoint of the city, as all distances are calculated from this point

A 1850s pioneer village and interactive museum detail the history of the Wabash Canal in Indiana.

This street was the filming location of the iconic flying bicycle scene from “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.”

The Jardin d'Étretat is populated by over-sized raindrop sculptures that make funny faces at visitors.

A beautiful memorial to the 215 passengers and 14 crew members who perished in a 1998 plane crash.

David Robert Jones was a Berliner — from 1976–1978

Home to an astounding collection of carved skulls and other artifacts from Puebla's history

A lookout built from shipping containers with a rare view into the harbor’s busy machinery.

A reconstructed historical park where a treaty was signed in 1826 between the United States government and the Miami and Potawatomi Indian tribes

The place where a brilliant German artist ended his life after a struggle against a malignant disease he could not win

A general store in rural New York has been selling hardware, candy, and conversation to the same families for 175 years straight.

Where spies were trained, the Cold War found its first whistleblower, and James Bond was born.

Closing the station left a big hole in the ground. So they put in a shopping centre, a block of apartments and bus station over it and the largest undercover car park Europe in it.

The peace and seclusion of Kyoto’s “Moss Temple” is no accident.

The inspirational cabin where Gene Stratton-Porter wrote many of her books.

Commemorating the nine-year-old and his pony's 965 kilometers solo ride to Sydney in 1932 for the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge

An original from the King of Pop's 1995 army of ten fiberglass giants, now looming in a Swedish industrial area

A life-sized statue marks the spot of the 100-meter-wide "neck" that leads to the Tasman Peninsula, and the convict penal settlement was once guarded by a line of ferocious and savage dogs

A recent addition to the Suzhou skyline, heralding the ‘Gateway to the Orient’, is commonly ridiculed for looking like a big pair of trousers

Ruins of a vanished village, long shadowed by rumors of a hidden lineage

One man’s nostalgic collection of ’50s Americana

The hidden chapel that keeps getting forgotten over the centuries

A one-of-a-kind barrier keeps venomous snakes away from tourists