Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

The dress young Pierce wore prior to his breeching ceremony in the early 1800s is now on display for all to see.

There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

An ancient burial ground believed to have been used for ritual sacrifice.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

A beautiful chapel on the hills of the Oltrepò Pavese claims to house the tomb of King Edward II of England.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

At 72 feet below sea level, it's the lowest commercial airport in the world.

This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

Over a million items cram the shelves at Africa's largest shop of used and rare books.

This German fountain of a legendary apple wine-loving drink thief will spit on you.

Birds with backpacks expedite film development for a rafting company on a remote Colorado river.

Enigmatic tombs and cave dwellings on the outskirts of a rural village.

An archaeological treasure trove towers over the valley of Chiavenna.

No one is quite sure of the origins of these idyllic natural hot springs at an abandoned mountain resort.

Genoa's collection of over 4 million zoological, botanical, and geological specimens from around the world.

Historical etchings such as “Miserable, wild, distracted 1350" and “The Archdeacon is an ass.”

It has an American Dream Car exhibit, Europe's largest Formula One collection, and many, many mannequins.

The ruins of a megalithic monument sit right in the garden of a luxurious Maltese resort.

A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

A Brooklyn exhibit all about Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding in 1994.