Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

Each year, teams of the world's best snow sculptors have 65 hours to create frozen masterpieces.

All that remains of the fishing-vessel-turned-warship is its weathered hull.

A town's monument to a touch-football victory 50 years in the making.

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

A small gallery and shop dedicated to an ancient style of hand-printed textile.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

An abandoned textile factory on the "island of crows" was home to Estonia's first workers' strike.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

A memorial to a shareholder activist feared by CEOs around the United States.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

The medieval town's star-shaped walls are geometrically dazzling, though not entirely impenetrable.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.

Henry VIII's forgotten castle was built by the gunpowder-obsessed king to be defended solely by cannons.

A symbol for the opposition to nuclear power around the world.

The old tradition of drying laundry on poles in the public green is still guaranteed by Glasgow city law.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

The fight to make Bengali an official language started in this stunning university hall.

A Cold War secret surveillance tower used to spy on radio communications.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.