Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

The spectacular collection of one of the world's best woodcarvers.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

Berlin's old airport.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

The enigmatic and seldom visited ruins of a Mayan city-state.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

The only electricity pylon under whose legs you can go by boat.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

Venice's island of the dead.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

The lake that fills and empties itself at random.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.