Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

The world’s oldest baseball field had to fight to earn its record.

A medieval, mosaic-lined baptistry built by a heretical Christian sect.

South America's oldest surviving locomotive.

Legend says entire herds of cattle have disappeared within this boulder-strewn landscape.

A giant lumpy candle serves as a beacon for this highly scented pit stop.

An interactive exhibition space dedicated to the kinetic sculptures of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely.

Its humdrum facade only adds to its electrifying appeal: a rooftop with panoramic views of a shapeshifting metropolis.

The world's shortest funicular ferries beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

Housed inside a replica church, its collection honors the Black community displaced by the Halifax government.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

An unassuming Swiss institution houses Europe's largest toy museum.

A historic, century-old house plopped along the perimeter of Houston's ballpark.

The oldest brick house in the state of Ohio.

The wooden sculptures are studded throughout a small New Zealand town.

This century-old barn is home to a homey, eclectic film festival.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

Remnants of the United States's largest accidental oil spill still mar a California valley.

The museum houses "the most studied meteorite in history," among other geological oddities.

Students can borrow artwork from this gallery to display in their own residences.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.