Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

Beside some power panels, a plaque celebrates the history of an alternate world.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

The sculptural remains of the last home of a legendary Dada artist.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

One of the final concrete ships built before World War II is now a crumbling breakwater.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Villas that once served as playgrounds for the rich now fall away in decay.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

Supposedly Satanic numbers adorn this preserved submarine sail.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.