Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

England's “third-oldest college” has not graduated a single student in over 400 years.

A construction mishap at this narrows on the Fraser River rendered it impassable to many migrating fish species, with international consequences.

This memorial cross along a roadside in Old Goa, India marks the spot of once bustling, but long-gone community.

A 19th-century California philanthropist is entombed beneath the telescope he funded.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts displays what it calls the world's largest ship model.

In the desert of southern Peru is an intriguing collection of ancient petroglyphs whose origins remain unknown.

For some its just random patterns, but upon closer look they reveal things lost to history.

Giant quails play and greet visitors at a suburban park.

Malta’s oldest sea water distillation building is now an architectural anomaly on the Sliema waterfront.

With a history dating back to Victorian times, this architectural gem is a rare New York tourist haunt worth visiting.

A collection of miniatures made in the central-western region of Mexico.

The final resting place of a music legend.

Every year, a sparkling cave is sculpted in the icy heart of a glacier.

Engraved in stone here are the signatures of everyone who signed the Declaration of Independence.

This pink tractor statue pays tribute to a legendary underground punk band.

The oldest Egyptian obelisk still standing in its original site.

Only reachable by boat, a small Tanzanian national park is home to the chimpanzees that Jane Goodall spent her career studying.

A small town that began as a western movie set.

John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, and other Hollywood actors have resided in this picturesque Route 66 hotel.

One of the earliest Ataturk monuments commemorates the victory of the Turkish War of Independence.

These gardens celebrate the biological and cultural diversity of the Hawai‘ian Islands.

Canada’s longest cave system is home to creatures found nowhere else on the planet, as well as rare cave pearls.

This station on an abandoned railway line, named for “happiness,” is still a popular destination for lovers.

A kitschy stop on the way to Zion National Park.