Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

Under the right conditions, rocks will move across this dry lakebed, leaving trails behind them.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

An abandoned miniature golf course in the middle of the jungle.

In the Compton Hill Reservoir Park sits a statue whose lack of clothing caused a scandal for the group that commissioned it.

A volcanic crater that visitors can look inside.

This century-old independent movie theater with an iconic Art Deco neon sign survived a devastating fire in 2016.

An immense cave that has served as an outlaw's treasure trove, an underground dance hall, a nuclear fallout shelter, and much more.

A Route 66 filling station that was designed to resemble the Hagia Sophia, and is now the symbol of an arts district.

This giant mimetic milk bottle has encouraged Route 66 travelers to choose dairy since 1948.

A massive mammoth bone has been on display inside this church since the 18th century.

Though it is far from the site of the attacks on September 11, 2001, this memorial trail commemorates the lives that were lost on that day.

Winter and summer solstice aligned sculpture in the middle of nowhere.

A small museum celebrating the fiberglass giants that are icons of America's highways.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.

A quirky mishmash of Route 66 memorabilia and other throwbacks from the past.

The Milburn-Price Culture Museum in Vega offers a brand-name oversized cultural attraction.

This colorful monument commemorates a little-known story from the life of Abraham Lincoln.

Eat and drink at a pub older than the Magna Carta

At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.

A father’s love is immortalized by a unique dollhouse marking a young girl’s grave site.

The iconic egg tart gets an upgrade with a laminated sourdough crust.

What was once believed to be a church floor turned out to be the artwork of geology.

An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.