Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.

An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

The middle finger of modernity.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.