Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

A surprising relic of WWII, sitting boldly in a Marseille street.

A mural honoring the women who built Singapore turned a quiet alley into a citywide debate.

Among the cornfields stands a giant spider crafted from an old Volkswagen.

Art Nouveau beauty hidden deep in Cairo’s Al-Helmiya neighborhood.

A tour to spot Scotland's once-vanished birds of prey.

A striking ruined manor house in Norfolk, known for its picturesque setting and fascinating history.

A replica of the boarding house where many pioneering mangaka lived in the 1950s and ’60s.

The biggest bit of tackle you’ll ever see is in this Alberta town.

A massive bell inside a Danish library rings to announce the birth of a baby in the city.

One of the last great old-school fish markets in Japan's Tohoku Region.

A council house in England where ghostly activity was reported in the 1970s.

This sculpture in Denmark presents Arnold Schwarzenegger embracing his own doppelgänger.

You can dig for your own 52-million-year-old fish fossils.

The secret behind these nostalgic light fixtures: They're not as old as they may seem.

This steep slide at a kids’ playground went viral after an police officer tumbled down it.

Take a selfie with one of the area’s founding fathers.

Geographers once declared this spot in Ukraine to be the center of Europe, although that status is disputed.

This museum honors an African-American renaissance man of the early 18th century.

An underground passage originally constructed as an air-raid shelter during the Spanish Civil War.

A historic cider mill still using time-tested techniques.

Stand astride the International Date Line in Fiji, with one foot in two different days.

A heart-shaped rock hollow amid lush scenery in Japan.

A historic signpost to world cities on the top of a barren mining hill in the Yukon.

A pair of beacons from the 1920s guide ships steering a course to Melbourne.