Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

Three floors above a 2,000-year-old royal tomb is a rare collection of ancient porcelain pillows.

See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

Long before air conditioning, Persian architects found an ingenious way to cool off.

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.

Buying your medicine at this particular pharmacy is like taking a trip back in time.

The sand is such a bright white that on sunny days you practically need sunglasses to look at the ground.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

The "father of immunology" used this humble hut to offer the local people some of the world's first free vaccinations.

Discover the magic in the mundane in Iceland's Museum of Everyday Life.

The mysterious 855-foot zigzagging stone wall has been baffling people for centuries.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.