Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

"The Wonder From Down Under," a worm shaped museum celebrating the endangered Giant Gippsland earthworm.

Island of trash twice the size of Texas floats in the Pacific.

A solar-powered primary school inspires hope and experimentation in a country ripe for energy innovation.

A quirky house created entirely out of glass bottles combines a collector's spirit with an artist's flair.

In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.

These "50 Fortresses" have been unearthed in the ancient oasis of Khwarezm.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

Only two of these trees remain in the natural world, found high in the cloud forest of the island of Mauritius.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

A red-brick beacon stands against the tempestuous Atlantic, on the windiest site in the United Kingdom.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

An underground city of salt.