Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

The Gaudí-inspired building that was the start of Terrassenc modernism.

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

A gigantic collection of teeny, tiny books.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

A cave covered with bizarre stalactites of cloth.

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

An ancient jungle temple carved into a rocky overhang of the Dane Soung Plateau.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.

The red crab exhibits one of the most spectacular migrations on earth, despite manmade obstacles.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The 100-year-old public collection of a New Hampshire dentist that contains taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and a pair of mummy hands.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

Tibetan-influenced mountain fortress in Northern Pakistan.