Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

It’s a bug’s life at this Korean eco-event park, built to host an annual butterfly festival.

The world's largest collection of ticks.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

After suggesting criminals be burned to death on this rock, a king's advisor suffered his own punishment.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

A piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh inside a piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh.

A failed attempt to control drifting sands yielded a gnarled sylvan wonderland.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

A tribute to one of the most famous cowboys on TV, and the consumerism that fueled his popularity.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.