Places is a remote MCP server that gives an AI agent 8 tools, among them get_place, get_statistics, list_countries. It answers at https://detourmap.com/mcp over streamable HTTP, and it listed its tools to an anonymous client, so no sign-in was needed for that. Our probes reached it 10 of 10 times since 4 September 2026; the last check, on 18 October 2026, succeeded.
70,520 places worth a detour: name search, nearby lookup, fame rankings, statistics. No key, CC0.
Description as the publisher wrote it.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
get_place | Fetch one place’s full record by slug (preferred, e.g. "neuschwanstein-castle") or exact name: coordinates, founding year, worldwide fame rank and tier, short description, photo URL, Wikipedia and Wikidata links, and a deep link that opens Inputs: place |
get_statistics | Headline statistics computed live from the atlas: totals by kind, top countries, fame-tier sizes, dated-entry stats, geographic extremes and the most famous place. The source for aggregate claims like "how many castles are on Detourmap" or |
list_countries | Every country in the atlas with its place count, most first — answers "which country has the most notable places". Countries with eight or more places include a browsable index page URL. |
list_kinds | The layers Detourmap carries — archaeological and nature — with worldwide counts and a browsable index page for each. The atlas is cut to these kinds and holds nothing else. |
places_near | List notable places within a radius of a WGS84 coordinate, most famous first (rank order), each with distance_km — the direct answer to "what is worth visiting near <place>?". Radius defaults to 50 km (max 500). Geocode the location yoursel Inputs: latitude, longitude, radius_km, kind, limit |
random_place | One random place with its full record — deliberately biased toward the little-known long tail, like the site’s own "Surprise me" button. Optionally limit by country and/or kind. Great for discovery and "place of the day" features. Inputs: country, kind |
search_places | Search 39,832 notable places worldwide by name (accent- and case-insensitive substring match): archaeological and nature. Optionally filter by country (name or ISO code) and kind. Results come best-match-first, then by fame; each carries co Inputs: query, country, kind, limit |
top_places | The most famous places worldwide, in one country, or of one kind — ordered by Detourmap fame rank (derived from Wikipedia language coverage; rank 1 is the most famous). The direct answer to "most famous <kind> in <country>" and "what are th Inputs: country, kind, limit |
Every block below points at https://detourmap.com/mcp. Pick your client and copy.
claude mcp add --transport http places https://detourmap.com/mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"places": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://detourmap.com/mcp"]
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"places": {
"url": "https://detourmap.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"places": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://detourmap.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"context_servers": {
"places": {
"url": "https://detourmap.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"places": {
"serverUrl": "https://detourmap.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"places": {
"url": "https://detourmap.com/mcp"
}
}
}name: Places
version: 0.0.1
schema: v1
mcpServers:
- name: Places
type: streamable-http
url: https://detourmap.com/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"places": {
"httpUrl": "https://detourmap.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"places": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://detourmap.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"places": {
"url": "https://detourmap.com/mcp"
}
}
}goose://extension?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdetourmap.com%2Fmcp&type=streamable_http&id=places&name=Places
It answered our last check on 18 October 2026 in 147 ms. Over 10 checks since 4 September 2026 it answered 10. Status here comes from Neuronto's own probes, not from the publisher.
Yes. It is published by detourmap.com and served from detourmap.com, the vendor's own domain: https://detourmap.com/mcp.
8, as returned by the server's own tools/list on 10 September 2026: get_place, get_statistics, list_countries, list_kinds, places_near, random_place, search_places, top_places.
It answered our last check on 18 October 2026 in 147 ms. Over 10 checks since 4 September 2026 it answered 10.
Put the server under mcpServers in ~/.cursor/mcp.json with the URL https://detourmap.com/mcp. The exact JSON is above, with the same setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Gemini CLI and the rest.
It listed its tools to an anonymous client, so reading the tool list needs no key. Individual tools can still ask for credentials in their own inputs.
Publisher: com.detourmap. Endpoint host: detourmap.com. ARD identifier: urn:air:com.detourmap:mcp:places.
First indexed 31 August 2026. The tools are exactly what the server returned; nothing on this page
is inferred from its name. Ranking in Neuronto search is never for sale.