Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

A writer's tiny retreat built from salvaged shipwreck timbers.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

This singular broken monument, now housed in a museum, was the cause of a worldwide "Mayan Doomsday" phenomenon.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

Sacred waters rescued from the wrath of a volcano.

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

A puppy slum that protects canines from the cruelties of the human slums.

Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A small town market proudly displays numerous taxidermied animals along its walls.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.