Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

The massive white mound and accompanying water terraces are a striking geological oddity.

These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.

A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

This romantic, decaying 13th-century ruin on the edge of Sherwood Forest is reputedly one of England's most haunted places.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

Portugal’s highest lighthouse has one of the most impressive focal planes in the world.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

Stumbling upon this whimsical wooded garden is like stepping into an enchanted forest full of philosophical musings.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

Where a rare geological phenomenon created a section of rock that resembles a checkerboard.

The world's largest washing machine collection has more than 1,400 antique items in its exhibit.

At just 51 feet and 10 inches long, it's the shortest street in England.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

Overshadowed by other, more famous Maltese catacombs, this ancient burial chamber has one of the best examples of a ritual agape table.

An unusual assortment of steerable wooden sleds is on display in a library in New Jersey where they were first invented.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.