Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Boats must transform into railroad cars to navigate this Polish canal.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

A trio of hidden hot tubs takes advantage of Iceland's natural geothermal vents.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

Repurposed space and ultra-modern construction collide to create this geometric wooden spectacle.

Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.

This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.

An abandoned Santa park is as far as this proposed theme park kingdom got toward completion.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

For the holidays, the tallest broadcasting tower in the Netherlands turns into one of the world's tallest Christmas trees.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.