Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

This abandoned-looking amusement park is frighteningly open for business.

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

A small town hallucinates en masse - Bad bread, or CIA science project?

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

One of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

The final stronghold of a king whose feet never touched the ground.

Nestled near the mountains of western Canada resides this behemoth earth mover.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.