Places Edited by Daniel McDermon

Fine dining 20 feet below the surface in the Indian Ocean.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

One of the most accessible undersea plane wrecks in the world.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

How this choice of tombstone came to be is still a mystery.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.