Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.

You'll never meet anyone this passionate about elephant droppings.

The world's only bushplane museum captures the spirit of the early planes and pilots and their contributions to northern life in Canada.

This 1913 single-screen cinema is a charming survivor in the age of the multiplex.

An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

An abandoned 19th-century iron factory perched along the outskirts of an idyllic village.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.

The world’s only museum dedicated to baked beans.

Bright Indonesian villages painted in a rainbow of competing color schemes.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

The longest stone bridge in England has an impressive history that dates back over 700 years.

A secret meeting in this small cottage changed the course of British history.

A mysterious, hidden cluster of Buddha sculptures carved into the rocks.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

The holiday spirit lingers year-round in the "Christmas City of the High Plains."

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

Row, row, row your pumpkin quickly down the stream.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.