Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

A nostalgic restaurant evokes life in Taiwan from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Hundreds of toothbrushes hang from a wire fence along a quiet New Zealand road.

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.

The wood bears a hidden love note carved by a young Johnny Cash.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

The ruins of New Zealand's largest classical-style church.

A lonely medieval monastery on an uninhabited island.

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.

This small piece of railroad history sits behind the parking lot of a chain grocery store.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

These abandoned ruins in the middle of Jaffna have withstood centuries of tumultuous power struggles.

One man spent 10 years building a spectacular section of road because no one else would.

An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

This short white tower is all that's left of Scotland's first permanently manned lighthouse.

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Greek island's old British cemetery feels like a forgotten garden.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”