Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

The first commercial phone line west of St. Louis was installed thanks to a group of Cherokee businessmen.

Historic site that showcases the history of British Columbia's fishing industry.

Visitors can tour this retired East German jetliner, and even get married inside.

Bronze frogs link the town’s hidden waterways with the people who shaped it.

The graffiti that birthed modern algebra.

Graffiti-covered ruins of a luxurious resort sit among enchanting beaches.

A marker in suburban Hangzhou shows the intersection of the 30th parallel north and the 120th meridian east.

An uninhabited island in a New Zealand harbor with dozens of scuttled vessels.

This massive rock column in Canada is perched on a corner of its base, seeming to defy gravity.

Denied an electric train set as a child, a wealthy man built this railroad instead.

Unexpected work of street art in a remote Caucasus mountain town.

A Flintstones-themed eatery in the heart of Ayia Napa’s party strip.

A rare forest habitat nestled behind two sand dunes.

Abandoned transformer house on a country road tells of a time when art and politics were closely linked.

A street with an infamous past where the terminally ill were sent to die.

The third-largest replica of the Paris landmark, rising over the city’s skyline.

A glimpse of mining history just beyond the tree line.

A park where the Inn and Ilz rivers join the Danube as it slinks off into Austria.

The life’s work of a sculptor preserved in the Maine woods.

A 21-foot-tall pyramid in a Northern Irish woodland marks the grave of... nobody.

Keelung’s century-old French military cemetery.

A fragment of one of history’s most famous walls stands as a reminder of unity in a culturally divided city.

Legendary DIY skatepark where Portland’s best skaters and curious onlookers gather daily.

A phone booth crammed with books marks the path to a house-turned-bookstore in Alaska.