Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

Step inside one of America’s rare poteaux-en-terre French houses.

An Ohio man paved the way for the future of American transportation.

Built in 1904 as a lavish gift for a daughter, it is one of Croatia's youngest and most architecturally unique castles, blending Art Nouveau with neo-Gothic elements.

Some of the world’s most popular songs came out of this building.

This giant sculpture recalls a famous passage from “Alice in Wonderland.”

This alluring underground library, hidden in a suburban Metro station, features a Space Age aesthetic and its own hydroponic garden.

This Western confectionery in Kobe made the German tree stump cake into a Japanese staple.

This conceptual artwork might be the most disappointing attraction in Brussels.

A chapel where women can demand their true love.

This businessman wanted to make a name for himself (and no one else).

What was one of the largest hotels in the country burned to the ground in a tragic fire.

One of Ireland’s oldest family-run pubs, with a unique feature.

This tree, over 500 years old, was planted by Columbus’s son.

The only Chicago bridgehouse open to the public contains a museum devoted to the Chicago River.

This statue of a Native American figure forlornly looking at the passing of a way life has been on the move.

This charming, flower-filled, paved cul-de-sac is filled with artists' studio-houses built in the 1920s.

A remote shipwreck at the end of the world.

One of the best-preserved pieces of DDR propaganda in Berlin.

This rail trail culminates in a three-mile land bridge only accessible to cyclists and pedestrians.

Suspended from this brewery’s tasting room ceiling is a full-sized fin whale skeleton.

This time capsule lets you enjoy decades-old Japanese arcade games.

In 2400 BC, two male hairstylists decided to spend eternity together. But maybe they were just friends?

These 11,000-year-old mounds may be the oldest known human-made structures in the Americas.

An eerie ghost village hidden in the forests of the Eifel, frozen in a strange postwar limbo.