Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

This unique zoo is the only place in the world where you can see all 15 species of crane.

A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

A sophisticated astronomical tower built by one of the greatest Persian scholars of the Islamic Golden Age.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

Burbling away in refrigerators are 105 sourdough starters from around the world.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

The oldest scientifically dated tree in Europe lives on a remote cliff.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

A small museum full of giant effigies of Bali's demons and monsters.

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.

Songwriter Leon Russell transformed this church into a recording studio used by many legendary musicians.

Where Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' were born.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.