Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

One of the largest fleets of armored vehicles in the world, sitting out in the California desert.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

This 2,700-year-old woman is the jewel of the Maidstone Museum's Egyptian collection.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

A public display of random paleontology.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

Huge herds of Asian elephants can be seen walking, bathing, and just chilling at this Sri Lankan park.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.