Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

The engineering feat of the Panama Canal was possible in small part thanks to materials developed in this humble Red Hook foundry.

The factory that helped produce a dominant form of lighting before Thomas Edison.

One of two side-by-side totem pole parks dedicated to educating visitors on Tlingit history and culture.

Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.

A unique opportunity to stay the night in retrofitted sections of sewer pipe.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

A city continually buried under the ash of a volcano that has been erupting for more than 15 years.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

Paiwanese restaurant run by native indigenous Taiwanese singer songwriter, and home to a DIY arts-and-crafts folk garden.

An Amazonian hotel is the ultimate treehouse and provides stilt based accommodation.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

This limestone cave offers an incredible view of the Río Grande de Arecibo valley.

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.

America's first federal monument.

An archaeological site believed to be the burial place of the "mother of us all."

A Moroccan getaway in the mountain range that plays the Himalayas' stunt double.