Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

Some cheeky plantings brighten an old slipway on Scotland's Firth of Forth.

A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

The strange and snarky traditions of the lumber industry's fraternal order began with five men waiting for a train here in Arkansas.

CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.