Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

This 16-foot, 6-ton statue in the singer's hometown doesn't actually look like her.

A friendly monster lurks outside the State Library Victoria.

The control tower at the historic weapons range is now available as a highly unusual vacation rental.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

Where a young athlete began his run across Canada after losing his right leg to cancer.

This cobblestoned medieval-style town was entirely constructed in the 1990s and 2000s.

A bronze replica of half-consumed salt lick honors a quirky town tradition.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient Roman religious cult contains an exquisite traditional fresco.

The secluded site of a 1943 plane crash and amazing rescue is only accessible by hiking through the woods.

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

The artwork celebrates Trugo, a odd yet beloved local sport played only around Melbourne.

A 1,100-ton train fell through the floor in 1953. Workers got it patched up in just 72 hours.

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

An ancient holy well said to be used by the patron saint of sailors and travelers, lost in the boggy west of Valentia Island.

A 19th-century utopian religious society designed to align with the latitude of Jerusalem.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."