Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

A jungle in the heart of São Paulo reminds visitors of what Brazil looked like untouched by man.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

A leafy, peaceful oasis nestled in the heart of Glasgow's busy south side.

Monks turned this mountain into a temple by digging grottoes, tunnels, and a huge pagoda-like hall.

A lonesome Moai stands in a small Italian town some 9,000 miles away from its Easter Island brethren.

A pyramidal marker where the borders of Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana meet on top of Mount Roraima.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

This ancient altar emerges from the thick forests to reveal the mysteries of Etruscan sacrificial rituals.

A fascinating assortment of cave dwellings, medieval ruins, and sarcophagi are being devoured by the forest.

A Kyiv-based repository for all manners of discarded curiosities.

An unassuming rod in the Netherlands was once the old standard unit of length for the entire Dutch empire.

The ruins of a medieval village that was abandoned after a 19th-century inferno.

This neighborhood of futuristic ball houses looks like an alien settlement in a science fiction film.

The ruins of a medieval monastery built on a perilous slope.

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.

Three sinkholes filled with warm, crystal-clear water reached by a horse-driven cart on an old train track through the jungle.

The end appears to be nigh for the world's fourth-longest floating bridge.

This enormous spiral sculpture looks strangely out of place on the edge of a housing development.

This observatory within Europe's first dark sky park offers stunning views of the night sky.

In the days before house numbers, these colorful signs held clues about various buildings' purposes.

A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.

A giant roundabout made up of six smaller roundabouts can befuddle the uninitiated.