Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.

A father's love for his son has weathered the test of time in this whimsical garden of outsider art.

The "Mother Temple of the Pacific Islands" stands at the center of 20 acres of lush, tropical prayer gardens.

Aliens and monsters lurk inside this museum dedicated to one man's lifelong adoration of all things sci-fi.

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

The world champion cow is buried within a historic old asylum.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

A series of three shiny letters mark the boundary of an old refuge for those being pursued by debt collectors.

A set of medieval stained-glass windows tell the gruesome story of a Viking siege.

It's forbidden to dig within this ancient Roman fort hidden beneath a playground.

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

When the Soviets destroyed the historic Armenian monastery they somehow left its bell tower intact.

A lush indoor jungle fills this bustling Madrid transportation hub.

Beneath the most controversial monument in Mexico City is a cultural center that exhibits only digital art.

A heated statue pays tribute to one of Sweden's great actresses.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

After a terrible drought, townspeople used wine to build this church.

Three hundred illuminated pillars form an “artificial forest” in Medellín.

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

In medieval times this small stone seat was used as a bizarre way to punish insolvent debtors.

The original resting place of Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony's only daughter.

A giant yellow phallus sculpture hidden in the gardens of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.