Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.