Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

This Indonesian village was revitalized by a vibrant rainbow paint job.

This church built atop a gas station promises to "equip you for the next stage in your life’s journey."

An 11th-century mountaintop fortress that played a crucial role in Italy's papal wars is now a vacation rental.

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

The 20-mile causeway that separates the Netherlands from the sea.

The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

One of the Leiden's oldest pubs is also the birthplace of the Heineken star.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

This beautiful site is where the first transatlantic telegraph was sent from.

Impressive sink holes fill this untouched old-growth forest in the Bahamas.

A chaotic collection of coin-operated slot machines designed to delight and disturb in equal measure.

An Iowa town celebrates its heritage with the tallest working Dutch windmill in North America.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

The decaying remains of a 1960s mechanical wonderland that never officially closed.

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.