Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

This 19th century wooden span is one of only four retractile bridges in the United States.

The tallest dam in Montana and top 10 in the country.

It's a breathing museum, where you get to breathe along with stunning immersive textile light art.

A real small-town gym became the unforgettable home court of the Hickory Huskers in “Hoosiers.”

A series of markers along one side of an Amsterdam canal memorialize the Jewish residents from the other side who died in the Holocaust.

Learn about the neighborhood founded by the last people ever brought to the United States by the Atlantic Slave Trade, still inhabited by their descendants.

Sitting at the intersection of sustainability and street art, these repurposed wind turbine blades offer a colorful, "blade-made" tribute to circular design and LGBTQI+ pride in the heart of Rotterdam.

In a quiet neighborhood in the south of Berlin is one of the most ambitious social housing experiments of the 20th century.

Two sections of the old dam that made it possible to tame the Meuse in Belgium in the 19th century.

A pentagram-covered shrine dedicated to a famed court astrologer known in the west as the Merlin of Japan.

A small, but very well curated, museum of cars, propaganda, and toys of socialist Bulgaria.

A playful symbiosis of art, nature, architecture, and garden design, a hidden gem off the beaten path

Picture yourself in history with this working collection of vintage photobooths.

One of the few Civil War monuments to honor a specific enlisted soldier.

A crumbling Caribbean resort hidden just steps from a beautiful pink sand beach.

Stand inside the dark interior of an historic redwood tree that once was used as a general's headquarters.

A tree meticulously shaped and trimmed into the shape of an elephant.

This museum celebrates dogs through unusual stories from their owners.

A quiet grave marks the site of a centuries-old fairytale love story that turned out to be a real murder.

Blink and you’ll miss it—the tiniest street in America packs a lot of charm into just a few steps.

Bent but not broken, this massive tree has stood in the garden for over a century.

A peaceful Elves-fairytale landscape hides an evil scar, a chasm so dark and daunting that for centuries it was believed to be the gateway to hell.

This was the first ever National Lakeshore, established in 1966.

Site of the longest gun battle in FBI history.