Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.

This once-booming gold mining hub was basically abandoned overnight.

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

A mesmerizing reservoir nestled at the heart of a pre-Islamic Yemeni village.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.

Built in the 1300s, this magnificent building that hosted England's kings and queens transports you to the Middle Ages.

Hundreds of unusual wheel crosses poke above the earth in this small Estonian cemetery.

Its impressive still-working beam engine is a thing of beauty for engineering history fans.

A sarcastic monument threatens to curse any "idiot" who dares remove it.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

Crossing this suspension bridge feels like walking through the sky, a fitting tribute to the head of the Apollo program.

Centuries ago, red and white wine poured from the statue's breasts whenever a new Venetian ruler was elected.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

Originally planted by the ancient Carthaginians, this sprawling palm grove is one of the largest in the world.

Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.

A statue of a boy looks up at where the famous rival to the Leaning Tower of Pisa once stood.

Albert Einstein's head sticks out of a snail shell stacked on a rocket in this truly bizarre monument to the scientist.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

The unique design was created by the traditional way communal rice paddies were divided among the indigenous people.

A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.

Every winter, water dripping from a pole creates an ever-changing ice sculpture.