Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

A 14-foot monument marks the resting place of two of the town's earliest residents—and one unknown soldier.

A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.

A 12th-century church with a medieval fresco and an intriguing “Greek runestone.”

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

Its appearance in "Game of Thrones" may spur on the long-awaited restoration of this medieval shipyard.

These sea cliffs are an epic natural wonder.

Rumored to have been frequented by Vincent van Gogh, it's the only remaining genever producer in the Hague.

An unlikely neo-Gothic castle in the Paraguayan countryside.

This enormous fish commemorates the unplanned release of brown trout into a Michigan river.

A wonderfully preserved example of London's 1960s-style high-density, low-rise public housing.

This historic complex is home to the oldest Christian grave in Kolkata, India.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

A "time traveler's" vision of human history stretches throughout Mexico City's Copilco metro station.

This unique temple complex remains off the typical tourist trail.

A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.

A replica of the beloved character's house, modeled after the author's own drawings.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

A beautiful midcentury mural by the famed Brazilian modernist artist Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

The tombstone of an unfortunate explorer who disappeared in the Paris Catacombs.

Through the decades, Black music stars have performed at this historic hub for music and the arts.

The first thermometer made with the almost-universal temperature scale is backwards.

This abandoned artificial island off the coast of New York City is now home to dozens of harbor seals.