Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

This house of worship in the Arctic Circle is shaped like an igloo.

Locals call it the "Give Peas a Chance" bridge because of its distinct graffiti.

There's nothing shrimpy about the world's largest artificial prawn.

This 15th-century fortification was built to defend bunnies.

A headstone notes where the most famous of Robin Hood's legendary Merry Men is reportedly buried.

The statue of a legendary giant who carried Christ and shouldered the world's sins.

The world's largest pineapple building honors Bathurst's favorite fruit.

In this African village, the walls of the chief's compound are painted with beautiful traditional designs.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.

This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

17th-century merchants in Bristol nailed their deals by placing money on these pedestals.

A magnificent, Disneyesque chateau built for 150 lucky kindergarteners.

A gravestone marks where a man's lost limb was laid to rest.

This oddly placed 15th-century church is one of only six bridge chapels left in England.

The cardinal directions, set in stone.

Where the English trapper who faked a First Nations identity bunked with beavers.

No one knows for sure why this town's dead refuse to rot.