Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

This English medieval castle is where King John died of dysentery.

Seventeen members of the local royal family are interred in this Baroque church in northern Germany.

Hidden on a cobblestone street in Glasgow, a Czech Cajovna-inspired teahouse serves as a hangout for Bohemians.

This church houses the “incorrupt” body of its founding Bishop.

Eritrea's futuristic gas station is a nod to Italy's fascist history.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

The abandoned remains of a once popular zoo, and the grave of the last known Tasmanian Tiger.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.

This Norwegian satellite station provides ground services to more satellites than any other facility in the world.

Crop circles inspired this whimsical garden in Germany.

The religious shrine that Pablo Escobar's men would allegedly visit before completing a mission.

There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.

The skull of an ancient hominid was discovered at this spot.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

A somber memorial at the site where hundreds of prisoners and civilians were executed in the aftermath of World War II.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.