Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

A bizarre form of natural mummification was discovered in the church of this Frisian village.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Limestone grottoes turns everyday objects into stone.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

A man's home is his castle.

This small primate research island is teeming with playing, fighting wild monkeys.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

On the Pakistan-India border the militaries perform an elaborate theater of aggression each and every night.

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.