Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

This British museum hopes to take the taboo out of poo.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

Large, airy hallways hide within an impenetrable fortress that beckons urban explorers.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

A granite monument honors a beloved World War II canine mascot.

What looks like missing grout is actually an old pub's peephole.

Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.

Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

This elaborate estate contains a stunning marble aviary, a sunken conservatory, and a magnificent music room with a two-story pipe organ.

This museum in a shuttered train station remembers the island's forgotten rail system.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

A fantastical and futuristic temple of light built from nine monumental glass veils.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

A 4,000-year-old burial site hides behind a roadside Burger King.

The final resting place of a celebrated First Nations man who traveled through England with a snake oil salesman.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

This amazing mountain temple is topped by one of the tallest sitting Buddha statues in the world.