Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

A museum filled with tiny, adorable versions of the mighty Royal Danish Navy.

This family driveway also serves as the highest point in Illinois.

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

A full figure 4th century incorruptible saint lies in a glass coffin in Croatia.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

The unsettling remnants of a torn down movie set lies nearby the ruined location of the actual Płaszów Labor Camp.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

The largest collection of model trains in the world is actually run using full-size locomotive technology.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

A steamer run aground near Bimini lives a second life as a playground for scuba divers.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.