Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

Tile mosaics and quotes from Pablo Picasso add an artistic flair to these bus stop benches.

A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.

This embalmed man is one of the best preserved mummies from the Canary Islands.

Preserved baths in a Victorian-era spa town frequented by the most famous people of its day.

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

A display of torture devices used in the Spanish Inquisition and other scourges of medieval Europe.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

The grounds of this Jacobean estate contain one of the oldest mulberry trees in England.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

The cemetery houses the remains of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, one of Japan's most famous novelists.

The abstract sandstone rock formations at this Algerian national park are rich with prehistoric art.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

Every Friday, Sufi dervishes whirl around the tomb in a trance-like state as part of a sacred ritual called dhikr.

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

A network of sandy streets lined with verdant fukugi trees weaves throughout this tiny seaside town.

This former charity hospital for elderly clergy houses some of Seville’s most treasured paintings.

The remains of a doomed Antarctic plane, buried beneath layers of ice and snow, await those willing to do a bit of digging.

During its heyday, the massive estate boasted its own railroad station and post office.

This quirky collection is an interactive exhibit crammed with creative contraptions and tinkered-with toys.

The inky volcanic sand leads to reefs teeming with aquatic life waiting to be discovered by snorkelers and divers.

The trailblazing Swedish businesswoman created a beloved minty candy called polkagris.