Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

The burial place of 14 of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

Ecuador's first Catholic church was built by Spanish conquistadors in 1534.

Learn how dolls are made in this fascinating museum inside a 19th-century mansion.

The marshy karst plain has reclaimed this beautiful 17th-century church.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

This remote stretch of sand is a penguin lover's paradise.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

The extensive relics of an ancient Roman and Phoenician fish processing plant hide in a town park.

A whimsical folk art garden full of punny pieces and a diorama containing 3,500 toys.

This peaceful park with centuries of history hides in an overlooked section of South London.

Lumps of significant stone from around the world surround a flaming monument for peace.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

A spoke-tacular artwork constructed from recycled bicycle rims.

This eye-catching roundabout sculpture commemorates one of England's best World War II-era "shadow factories."

Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.

One of only five observatories in the world built to measure the Earth's wobble.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

An archaeological museum at the Aztec pyramid displays signs of the New Fire ritual performed every 52 years.

From a distance, Latin America's first Baha'i Temple looks like an enormous egg perched atop a hill.

The cave holds a spectacular array of stalactites and stalagmites, including one shaped like a giant human heart.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.

The taxidermy remains of the mighty beast made famous by a Crocodile Dundee film.