Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

A museum showcasing fossils purportedly proving a 6,000-year-old Earth.

Abandoned hangar from a forgotten part of aviation history, along the Ticino River in Lombardy.

Location of a royal cave rave in the 1800s, now largely forgotten.

These vibrant row houses are a unique example of Baltimore kitsch.

The aviator lived here from 1924 until she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane in 1928.

This feat of diesel-powered engineering enabled boats to bypass a series of five locks.

A pocket of pine forests, healing lakes, and legendary rocks rising from Kazakhstan’s endless steppe.

A statue in Enterprise, Alabama hailing the fast food giant Ronald McDonald, stylized as a boll weevil.

This massive, now-retired coal-mine excavator is said to resemble a mythical dragon.

Former 19th-century apothecary serves a top-tier version of Valencia's signature cocktail.

The company moved out of its sprawling headquarters, leaving plenty of traces behind.

The world's northernmost Islamic garden is in the chilly climate of Canada.

A Cold War watchtower atop a WWII-era bunker on a historic Dutch dike.

A very special collection of some of the rarest and most beautiful guitars.

A volunteer-run museum dedicated to past and present firefighting practices.

A T. Rex statue dressed as Mister Rogers honors the children’s-television pioneer.

A long enclosed walkway provides a daily free light show with hypnotic effects.

The remnants of a refugee settlement for Belgians during WWI.

The world’s first museum dedicated solely to electric vehicles.

Historic bar where the Singapore Sling cocktail was invented.

This great Pōhutukawa tree is believed to be the largest and oldest of its kind in the world.

Campus sculpture has earned a reputation for responding to the hopes and dreams of those passing by.

This spa in Hanoi is staffed exclusively by the visually impaired.

An historic, one-lane, pedestrian suspension bridge on Kauai.