Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

The hidden chapel that keeps getting forgotten over the centuries

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

This neighborhood was built in the golden age of Art-Decó, and its buildings are essential to understanding this style

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

This grand old Chinese medical facility has been restored and reopened to serve its original purpose.

Volo Bog is the only open-water quaking bog in Illinois, and also the southernmost open-water quaking bog in North America to exhibit all stages of bog succession.

Once a WWII supply tramway, it's now a popular & steep hiking trail.

A pair of trousers or a dress was hoisted up the shore station’s flagstaff to announce the birth of a baby to the lighthouse keeper working offshore.

A Provincetown shop that sells exactly one thing — a pink cupcake — and whose owner fought the town for the right to keep selling it.

An eighteenth-century fantasy where monkeys, dragons, and Chinese courtiers emerge from walls made entirely of porcelain.

The forest has reclaimed nearly everything—streets included—from this failed Pennsylvania "City of Heaven" that was once deeded directly to God.

This museum holds the most comprehensive collection of Armenian art in the world.

It's a tiny roadside universe of welded folk-art creatures built by one man who turned farm-repair welding into an imaginative anything goes sculpture garden that you stumble upon by accident and walk away remembering.

This quaint river crossing is the last car-suitable wooden bridge in the Swiss canton of Valais.

Among the strip malls and stoplights stands a giant, orange T. rex made of concrete with glowing red eyes.

An evolving artwork that began in 1996 and is scheduled to continue until... 2496!

An eclectic collection of mathematical items that include puzzles, art, calculating devices, and historical reproductions.

A 400-year-old ruined palace on top of a hill, overlooking the sleepy village of Al-Ghayl, some 300 km south of Riyadh.

The lesser-known of just two Japanese Gardens in Ireland stands as a memorial to an obscure but fascinating travel writer and journalist

The modest grave of Dušan Vasiljev in Kikinda's historic Melino Cemetery marks the resting place of one of Serbia's most important expressionist poets.

A beautiful and original museum dedicated to art of the 1930s in France and beyond.

A small, archaeology park outside Settle in the Yorkshire Dales with ruins of the impressive Hoffman Lime Kilns and an informative trail which explains the industrial history of the site and leads you to other ruined structures.

Despite being built 50 years ago, this housing estate's unconventional design gives it a futuristic, sci-fi aesthetic.

The Friedrich Ebert Memorial in Heidelberg commemorates the first democratic head of state in German history.