Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

One of the world’s largest suspended aquariums, located in Dubai Mall.

Where hand-pressed burgers meet low-flying planes — a 1950s drive-in shack at the end of an active runway in the Columbia River Gorge, with Mount Hood on one side and Mount Adams on the other.

A campy fiberglass statue welcomes visitors to this small town in central California.

Turrets, ramparts and towers, this Teesside castle has them all, but it's not all as it seems.

A privately owned Benedictine estate founded in 987, where a Tudor gatehouse and rare medieval guest house survive within a living historic manor in the Dorset village famous for its ancient chalk giant.

A whimsical Renaissance fountain sculpture from Florence, world-renowned for defying convention.

Time has expired for eternity at this gravesite with a sense of humor.

A museum inside a Byzantine island monastery.

The first Icelander to hold the position of governor.

This remarkably preserved historic structure stands as the last surviving remnant of Corstorphine Castle.

This rural Australian museum is dedicated to all things pinball.

The first inhabitants of this remote town faced a grisly death.

A lochside castle linked to Robert the Bruce, but not everything is as it seems!

A 19th century bank turned into a 6-story immersive art experience.

The decaying giant of Ulster’s lost linen empire.

This is the location of the U.S. Radium Corporation where the “Radium Girls” worked, became sickened by radiation poisoning, with many dying horrible deaths.

A real-world location where a fictional murder took place

A chimeric bronze demon, embodying the chaotic spirit of a new millennium.

What at first glance appears to be an ordinary house is in fact a work of art by Russian artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov.

A 17-foot-tall bronze statue of Moses with an index finger pointed towards the heavens signaling first down for the football team.

The experimental rail system which gave birth to both Toby the Tram Engine and a new system in the UK for authorisation of rural railways.

The only surviving theatre where William Shakespeare performed as an actor.

A forgotten Art Deco department store in central Budapest, where faded socialist-era retail grandeur meets the haunting beauty of urban decay.

A former mill turned into a world of curiosity and everyday objects.