Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

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

A marvel of engineering, this road ascends a Norwegian hill through six spirals inside of it.

The defense built to protect one of the last found pieces of land on Earth.

A roadside stop offers a taste of Korean culture.

A 400-year-old live oak tree with a fictitiously morbid past.

A Roman bridge closed to car traffic in the 1990s now open to foot traffic.

A preserved ancient Marshall Britannia steam locomotive on display at a train station.

A beautifully preserved and hidden 16th-century alleyway, tucked behind an unassuming door.

Whether or not you take the 72-ounce steak challenge, there’s plenty of history, fun and Texas-style food at this legendary stop along Route 66.

Sail on this replica of the first American privateer vessel to make a capture during the War of 1812.

Most of this “research national monument” still lies buried beneath the earth.

Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp’s brother, is among those buried here.

A visualization of three catastrophic floods that led to the creation of the famed Flood Wall.

This onetime gambler’s den was turned into a destination restaurant, reachable only by boat.

This distinctive lighthouse with an iron skeleton is one of the tallest on the East Coast.

More than 20,000 butterflies can be seen at this spectacular park and research center.

This oceanfront 1920s house museum offers visitors historic art and rare plants across five distinct ecosystems.

An old railroad crossing that’s been converted into a pedestrian bridge.

A beautiful window with the old Tesla Radio company logo.

Victorian-era pub covered head to toe with mementos from patrons of decades past.

A lookout spot for the Andean condor, at the edges of one of the deepest canyons in the world.

A quiet pine forest near Nichel hides a powerful memorial to victims of a nearly forgotten war crime.

This historic sculpture from the 16th century is even older than the city of Boston.

A memorial to the man who brought Western medicine to Japan.