Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

This giant bronze Buddha, the third largest in Japan, is the last in an ill-fated series of statues.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

The world's largest moose statue is located (where else?) in Canada.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

Mysterious wreckage of a small plane has been lodged in this tree since at least 1971.

This ruined folly was originally built to honor a failed American state that would have become "Westsylvania."

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

Deadliest lake in the world suffocated over 1,746 people in one night.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

Singapore's landscaping project is home to 18 incredible Supertrees.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

The ruins of a lighthouse on the island Amelia Earhart never reached.

Scotland's oldest medieval bridge is also among the last reminders of early medieval Aberdeen.

The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.