Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

The world's largest frame offers spectacular views of the city's past and present.

The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.

This former royal palace with gorgeous gardens became the first museum in Morocco.

The most biologically diverse protected area in Africa is also the most dangerous.

This species of wild goat stars in witchy legends and frolics among the park's eerie rock formations.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'

Legend has it fairies gathered at the site of this medieval castle.

A paradisical gorge with rapids, waterfalls, and wildlife whose raw beauty is the stuff of CGI movies.

Mysterious Incan ruins on a tiny island in Lake Titicaca.

Erected in 1803, it is the first astronomical observatory that was built in the Americas.

This floating sculpture of ice is a poignant reminder of nature's power.

Climb atop one of the world's longest and heaviest trains for an unbelievable journey across the Sahara Desert.

The singular ruins of a mysterious lost city.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

The only urban monument in the world designed by the great surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

These rustic holiday homes are made from discarded fishing boat hulls.

Arguing within this idyllic, circular volcanic lake is forbidden.

The birthplace of the Ford Model T is now a museum full of antique cars.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

The world's largest ecosystem of its kind is home to South America's only native species of bear.

This site is both a remarkable reminder of the town's mining history and a fantastic government blooper.