Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

A park dedicated to veterans with various military vehicles, including an F-14 Tomcat, in the middle of the suburbs.

The finest example of Gothic Queen Anne Architecture in the U.S. was built out of rivalry and spite.

A unique Baroque monument that creates a fascinating “theater of memory” focused on the themes of human transience and the hope for resurrection.

A mosaic tribute to a hitchhiking cat turned national celebrity.

A volcanically-heated waterfall in the St. Lucian rainforest.

A 9-metre tall reflective steel statue of a garden gnome crafted by Gregor Kregar, a New Zealand-Serbian artist.

Alexander Hamilton, a founding father for the United States, was an immigrant and born on Nevis.

This dam is part of the nation’s largest public power producer and a historic steward of Hiwassee River.

Hidden 2600-year-old Urartian tomb is located in close proximity to a busy shopping mall.

For centuries, one side of this basilica has integrated local archaeological finds.

The largest known adobe office building, emulating in style and layout the forms of traditional adobe architecture common to the region.

A museum complex showing 17th-century life in Swellendam.

A unique shopping and dining park created from old shipping containers and filled with local businesses.

Rest stops along this pathway offer some of the best views of the Acropolis of Athens.

The forgotten site of Guam’s first civilian hospital, where crumbling concrete foundations overlook the sea.

A small stone boy mischievously turns his backside toward the city’s most famous water carrier.

The west's first Japanese museum and the origin of East Asian studies.

Mediaeval cross marking an old Roman ridgeway on the top of moors in the Peak District.

A forgotten stone skeleton of medieval Dijon slumbers beneath the feet of unsuspecting museum visitors.

A life-sized imperial army, buried in battle formation, has stood underground for over 2,000 years—built not for war, but for eternity.

Across Valencia lie the remains of three ancient fortifications built centuries apart: a Roman enclosure, an Islamic expansion, and a medieval Christian wall.

On the campus of Franklin College you can get a Benjamin Franklin twofer.

26 Chinese banyan trees cling dramatically to a stone wall, overhanging the street below.

Before the Vatican, there was Dolton: This is the childhood home of the first American pope.