Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

This Little Rock legend has survived decades of rowdy crowds, three fires, and a zombie wedding.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

A rare wayfinding portmanteau of “Street” and “Avenue.”

The whole world in one water tank.

A strange egg in a mucky bog of western Ireland marks the spot of an aviation milestone.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

A big museum full of little worlds.

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.

A record-size collection of wild-haired troll dolls tells the story of the mythical creature's roots in Scandinavian folklore.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

Inside this small brick bungalow is a collection of toys intended for the afterlife.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

This tiny, charming synagogue in the Cayman Islands was built by a man as a present for his Jewish wife.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

The island where one woman reigned as a "queen" over 30-odd Japanese soldiers who refused to believe that WWII had ended.

One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.