Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.

The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

The London statue that imitates passersby.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

The world's largest commercially available hamburger is complete with 15 pounds of lettuce, 30 pounds of bacon, and 36 pounds of cheese.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

This abandoned palace and the stupas around it conceal beautiful Buddhist frescoes, statues, and silk paintings.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.