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Daniel McDermon

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2025

Now: senior editor at Atlas Obscura. I chase public art, dive bars, and strange museums.

Previously: editor at The New York Times and elsewhere.

@dasmcd

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Solna, Sweden

The Andrée Monument

A granite memorial to three men swallowed by the Arctic—Andrée, Strindberg and Fraenkel—explorers that attempted one of the most ambitious (and disastrous) North Pole expeditions in history.

Front of Hotel De Paris

Georgetown, Colorado

Hotel de Paris Museum

A little slice of 19th century France tucked away in the Colorado mountains.

Fault Whisper located in Fault Line Park

San Diego, California

Fault Whisper

Listen to the sounds of the Earth moving along the Rose Canyon Fault.

Norways first mass produced electric car

Oslo, Norway

FLOP Museum

A small Oslo museum dedicated to failed products, bad ideas, overhyped inventions, and the strange lessons hidden inside them.

Osho Teerth Park

Pune, India

Osho Teerth Park

A sprawling park in the middle of Pune feels like a magical, enchanted forest from a fairy tale.

Wiarton Willie Statue

Wiarton, Ontario

Wiarton Willie Statue

This small town is home to Ontario’s answer to Punxsutawney Phil.

Vela Spila

Vela Luka, Croatia

Vela Spila

A cave with a continual human presence from 20,000 BC outside of Vela Luka on the island of Korcula.

Cannery Row Workers' Shacks

Monterey, California

Cannery Workers’ Shacks

The last remaining houses of a bygone world immortalized by John Steinbeck in his novel “Cannery Row.”

"Main" Detroit Public Library, Detroit, MI 4/4/2026

Detroit, Michigan

Main Detroit Public Library

It's an incredibly beautiful city public space, with spacious rooms to study and admire the artwork.

Sinclair Seamen's Presbyterian Church

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Sinclair Seamen's Presbyterian Church

The bell of HMS Hood is rung every Sunday at this ship-themed church.

Sundu Waterfall

Sündü, Azerbaijan

Sundu Waterfall

The waterfall among the rocks in the village of Sundu in the Gobustan region fascinates everyone with its unique beauty.

Kyrka Gumlösa

Vinslöv, Sweden

Kyrka Gumlösa

An interesting tombstone is set into the side of the oldest brick structure in Northern Europe.

A row of 'Quinconces' units.

Pessac, France

Cité Frugès

This housing estate commissioned by a local sugar magnate was an early project by influential architect Le Corbusier.

John Ericsson Memorial

Washington, D.C.

John Ericsson Memorial

National Mall monument to the inventor of the screw propeller.

The interior of the Digital Art Gallery in 2026.

Gorizia, Italy

Digital Art Gallery

What was once an ordinary pedestrian tunnel under Gorizia Castle has been transformed into an immersive artistic experience.

Iglesia de la Veracruz

Santiago, Chile

Iglesia de la Vera Cruz

The hauntingly beautiful interior of a church almost destroyed by protestors’ fire.

League Stadium

Huntingburg, Indiana

League Stadium

A historic small-town ballpark that became the on-screen home of the Rockford Peaches in “A League of Their Own.”

Terry Jones Statue

Colwyn Bay, Wales

Terry Jones Statue

A cheeky tribute to a comedy legend.

Tunnel Entrance

Kelmarsh, England

Kelmarsh Tunnels

its a 480 Meter tunnel on a public bridal way which is currently unlit so take a torch even in the day

Canol Heritage Trail

Northwest Territories

Canol Heritage Trail

An abandoned WWII-era U.S. Army megaproject, turned hiking trail in the remote Canadian subarctic.

Fisher Building, Detroit, MI 8/22/2024

Detroit, Michigan

Fisher Building

It's been called “Detroit’s largest art object.”

Upper Falls

Centre, England

Aysgarth Falls

The most impressive falls in Wensleydale once produced power to weave the uniform of an Italian revolution.

Wray House at Flamingo Gardens

Davie, Florida

Flamingo Gardens and the Wray House

A time capsule of life in Southern Florida in the 1930s.

Cave Entrance

Alice Town, Bahamas

Hatchet Bay Cave

A mile-long, three-tiered cave hidden under a Bahamian island, complete with cathedral-like formations, bat colonies, and graffiti going back to the 1870s.

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