Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

A tribute to the truly loyal dog who waited outside a hospital for his owner to come back.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

An exact replica of a colossal Olmec head sits atop a pyramid within a Madrid traffic circle.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

This Javanese-Hindu temple from the 15th century is unmissable for anyone with even a passing interest in erotic art.

Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.

A hidden tunnel leads to an abandoned slate quarry that's now a secret swimming spot guarded by cliffs.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

The longest non-mortared wall in the country is one man's tribute to his displaced Yuchi ancestor's five-year journey to her homeland.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

This large sand dune in the Netherlands is home to wind-whipped trees with "floating" roots.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

Beautiful antiques and obscure engineering artifacts trace the evolution of phones from rare luxuries to ubiquitous.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Grotesque statues of figures from Buddhist hell haunt the temple's Sin Park.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

The "plyscraper" is the world's tallest building made predominantly out of wood.

The remarkably well-preserved final resting place of a powerful ancient Thracian king.

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

One of the largest Chinese cemeteries outside of China spent years overgrown and forgotten.