Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

Despite its ornamental looks, this towering Tuscan-inspired anomaly was a masterpiece in hydraulic engineering.

Men and special assistants stand by the road to sell the day's catch in this lakeside village.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

This roadside attraction looks like a flying saucer parked atop the tundra.

A memorial to the thousands of Turkmen soldiers and civilians who died in a bloody 1881 battle.

A delightful architectural wonder awaits on a lake island in Kuala Lumpur’s oldest park.

This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.

A former watering trough turned local heritage site.

This uniquely shaped 17th-century structure comes alive in early September.

This tribute to a local man towers within a quaint lakeside park.

This lone tower casts an outstretched shadow over the site of a once-wealthy Knights Templar preceptory.

Originally a cemetery, this city park remains speckled with a handful of scattered gravestones.

The dance of this huge clock is a magnificent and eerie commentary on good and evil in the history of humankind.

Ancient images hide within the park's caves.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

The elegant manor house where Kaiser Wilhelm II lived in exile after World War I.

The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.

A 2nd-century stupa home to one of the world's oldest statues of the Buddha.

An abandoned, desolate train tunnel that was used during World War II.

A model solar system adds a celestial touch to this suburban park.

Thousands of fossilized footprints speckle this Bolivian national park.

Abandoned for 60 years, this submerged bridge was completely forgotten until the lake was drained.

The enigmatic sculpture hides above an escalator in a Milan metro station.