Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

This tallest folly in the world began its life as an elaborate factory chimney.

Every May, townspeople welcome summer with a bizarre pagan parade led by a man wrapped in garlands.

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

Monumental sculptures guard many of the graves, transforming this necropolis into an open-air fine art museum.

Descendants of this colonial Pennsylvania family still travel from far and wide to visit the 300-year-old home of their Quaker ancestors.

Legend says lovers who hold hands while venturing along this stone jetty and kiss at the end will remain together forever.

In the world's most bombed country relative to its size, this incredible organization helps pick up the pieces.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

Installed as a beacon of hope for a hurricane-racked island, the statue had to be moved multiple times due to the eroding coast.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

This remarkably intact, 260-year-old cargo ship is only visible at the lowest of spring tides.

Before 1993, this historic-looking village—King Charles III's pet project—didn’t exist at all.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

Rainwater transformed this old quarry into a peaceful pond you won't find in most tourist books.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

A copy of the brutal decapitation device that predated the French Guillotine by about 200 years.

The gorgeous murals at this open-air museum form the largest street art collective in Chile.

The 43-mile route crosses through six islands with gorgeous views of the Seto Inland Sea.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.