Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

The largest market in Guyana, designed and built by the Edge Moor Iron Company of Delaware.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

The world's only facility where orphaned mountain gorillas are cared for.

One of the last refuges of the endangered eastern lowland gorilla.

This old and disused water tower has received a new life as an art gallery with a piano staircase.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

Dakar is home to one of the oldest African art institutions in West Africa.

The city of Palestrina was built around this magnificent terraced sanctuary dedicated to the pagan goddess Fortuna.

Hackney's newest private museum and natural curiosity shop.

An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.

This 16th-century Moroccan fortress-turned-armory museum offers prime views of the historic quarter in Fes.

Once home to a Scottish baronet, this 18th-century historic house doubles as a legendary art space.

A unique 1980s designed church sits uncomfortably in its traditional Victorian churchyard.

Known as "The People's Park," this verdant oasis is home to elephants and villagers alike.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.

This elegant carving of the Buddha guards a small Buddhist temple within a cave.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

A stunning fountain depicting a mythological she-goat carved directly into the rocks on the grounds of a Renaissance palace.