Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

An amazing clockwork museum in the Val de Travers holds examples of various prestigious legacies horological history.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

A typical crusty old museum this isn't.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

The Cathedral of St. Ambrose has been hiding a special parishioner within its walls.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

What can compare to the comforting sound of 10,000 toilets running?

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.