Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

This crescent-shaped sliver of sand is a magical haven for a herd of feral horses.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

Once an opulent Art Nouveau hotspot, the Constanța Casino is one of Romania's most beautiful abandoned buildings.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

This ancient Irish religious site is covered in ancient carvings, many of which have barely aged.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

A chaotic collection of maritime artifacts, art, and really whatever else happens to be around.

Early Medieval stones sit on display at the beautiful Govan Old Church in Glasgow.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

A statue in a Canadian zoo remembers the WWI origins of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

The deepest metro station in the world.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

The home of one of California's most important horticulturalists wilts amidst a lovely park.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.