Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

Hidden high on a remote mountain peak is a humbling and mysterious Vietnam War memorial.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

Endless rows of boxes of paper records line the hallways of the archaic federal facility where guns are traced.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

These red marks, seemingly placed at random, are in fact not.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

Strange, gentle beasts resembling goat-cow hybrids roam within this patch of forest.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

A quirky collection flush with information on commode culture from ancient times to modern day.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

The potters' quarter is packed with artists sculpting clay gods with mud from the sacred Ganges river.

Opulent period costumes and murals lead you on a journey through fashion history.

The world's oldest operational public pier railway has shuttled seagoing commuters from ship to shore since 1909.

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin’s lost medieval wall.

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.