Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

A giant repository of accidentally discovered cave paintings up to 30,000 years old.

This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.

This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.

A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.

Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

This four-story steel sphere in Maryland was used to test biological weapons.

This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

The smallest port in France is named after the pirate who created it.

A simple tribute to the migrant workers who landed here before walking hundreds of miles to Victoria's gold mines.

Life-sized painted illusions let pedestrians blend in with the street art.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

A 19th-century architectural wonder designed by the "father of the skyscraper."

Two massive and unstable sinkholes are yearning to unite, and their consummation could be catastrophic.

In Hong Kong, a fairytale flower tunnel is hidden within the gardens of a public housing complex.

A wooden statue of an Estonian pagan god and King of the Setos stands atop a sacred hill.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.