Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

Locals perched on icy thrones brave frigid temperatures during this bizarre winter tradition.

The eclectic seaside sanctuary caters to a rather fowl crowd.

This gorgeous, colorful 18th-century church is part of one of Bolivia's few surviving Jesuit missions.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

A rare tour of an aristocrat's private home reveals valuable 17th-century paintings from artists like Rembrandt.

This whimsical campus lawn is dotted with large sculpted numbers and hidden mathematical formulas.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

Dark, eerie exhibits make for a surreal exploration of the subconscious.

Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.

The centuries-old obelisk may have inspired J. R. R. Tolkien.

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

A collection of beautiful crystals shaped like freshly plucked roses.

The narrowest house in Buenos Aires is less than 10 feet wide.

A mysterious Neolithic tomb is perched along the edge of a modern golf course.

A simple tribute to the microscopic arachnid that gives its juices and its life to help make a speciality German cheese.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

One of Belgium's oldest hospitals saw patients from the 13th to 20th centuries before becoming a museum.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

The weathered grave of a medieval anchoress who walled herself up in a cell attached to a church.

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.