Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

A tongue-in-cheek marker at the place where Robert Barr supposedly created Scotland’s favorite soft drink.

A living folk-art atelier where a Brazilian self-taught artist is building one of the largest lion sculptures in the world.

A statue donated to the city of Mishawaka, Indiana in 1992, commemorating the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s arrival.

A hauntingly beautiful grave commemorates love evermore.

Collection of over 1,000 rare and vintage bicycles.

An Anatolian immigrant created his own little paradise in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, made possible by the tensions of the Cold War.

Celebrating Colombian coffee growers with a big gulp of a sculpture.

An improbable creek near Death Valley, not far from the oldest surviving Euro-American structure in the Mojave Desert.

A neoclassical crypt hides under Liverpool’s modernist cathedral.

A tunnel commissioned by ‘the Intruder King’ to escape from the palace if there were problems.

An obscure roundabout modeled on the Death Star from “Star Wars.”

The world’s largest museum dedicated to mining, complete with an underground show cave.

The largest Neo-Gothic church in rural Alberta.

This is the resting place of the meanest rooster in Cleveland, Tennessee.

Tucked into the hills above Rafailovići, this small hidden waterfall offers a rare pocket of calm just minutes from Montenegro’s crowded Adriatic beaches.

The remains of prehistoric monument make this place feel secluded, as if history wants to tell you something.

A Japanese fertility god in the shape of a large phallus.

A Fibonnaci spiral model of our solar system.

The Musée Albert-Kahn is a departmental museum in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, including four hectares of gardens, joining landscape scenes of various national traditions.

See one of the earliest depictions of a Christian ceremony – with a woman at the center!

Oldest surviving milestone in Europe outside of the Roman Empire.

A lending library of all possible categories of esoteric literature.

The only museum in North America dedicated to Memphis hoodoo history.

The only place in the world where the general public can walk aboard an authentic offshore drilling rig.