Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

This fortified sand barrier dividing a contested territory is the longest minefield in the world.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

A huge old mansion full of thousands of toys, each there to be used and played with.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

This Gothic church was wheeled in its entirety to a new location a half a mile away.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

A mysterious monument where a woman who records say never existed was burnt alive for being a witch.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.