Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

A museum and tribute to a brave profession.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

The single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

A desert in southeast Asia, complete with a beautiful lake covered in lotus flowers.