Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

Buddhist monk remarkably preserved because he started the mummification process while still living.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

Mummies preserved naturally for seven centuries.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

A suspended garden, now gone, once hung in the middle of this abandoned church.

This Gothic Revival castle used as a shooting location for "The Secret Garden" and other films.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

The world's longest known cave system.

South Korea's only sex-themed park.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.