Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

This charming, narrow-gauge railway in the Thames Estuary is sometimes referred to as the "Train to Nowhere."

A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.

The adorable animals return to this nature reserve every fall to give birth to their pups.

This collection of promotional calendars preserves a staple of mid-century Mexican pop art.

After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.

This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

This small Spanish village is home to dozens of public paintings meant to trick the eye.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

A statue representing a lost Roman profession that was vandalized for centuries.

The oldest standing Byzantine church in Athens is tucked within a monastery in the middle of an upscale shopping district.

This small statue hints at the incorrect origins of the lush landscape park surrounding it.

Atop this media building, two hives containing more than 30,000 bees keep the surrounding area vibrant.

The busy transport hub is home to the tallest airport slide in the world.

You can walk up Thailand’s naturally non-slip waterfall.

Mexico’s first and only Tzotzil Maya bookbinding workshop.

The world's only pure blue lizard lives exclusively on this secluded tropical island.

A comprehensive museum dedicated to Africa's oldest modern republic.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

The ancient heart of Tunis is an enormous maze of narrow streets and alleyways.

Half-hidden by grassy slopes, this striking Spanish colonial fort is now a museum of underwater archaeology.

Soldiers carved these regimental badges into the chalk hills in remembrance of those who died in World War I.

A colorful hidden village of the fair folk.

This 19th-century island fort built to protect against an invasion by sea.

A simple statue outside a California Amtrak station honors the overlooked contributions of the "silent spikes."