Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

A 500-year-old series of tunnels long believed to be folkloric was uncovered beneath the streets of Puebla.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

A secret hatch containing two parchments was discovered in this statue over 40 years after its installation.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.