Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

A fresco in this magnificent palace is said to have been the first depiction of the Taj Mahal's design.

Japan's hottest hot spring has a memorable name.

The Australian terminal of the Pacific Cable that linked the continent to North America.

This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.

Paleoamericans built these ancient walls high in the Colorado Rockies as part of an extensive hunting system.

This overlooked museum houses an amazing collection of rare, antique typewriters.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

Relics from as far back as the 16th century are on display in a city known for its playing card industry.

Five million people are laid to rest here, more than the population of Madrid itself.

A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

Plastic pups and their colorful homes greet travelers on this otherwise ordinary Australian street.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

This abandoned urban warfare facility is a dream come true for airsoft and paintball enthusiasts.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.