Kerry Wolfe's User Profile - Atlas Obscura
São Paulo, Brazil

Livraria da Vila

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.
Porto, Portugal

Livraria Lello

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Bolshoye Andreykovo, Russia

Kostroma Moose Farm

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.
Cincinnati, Ohio

American Sign Museum

Where beautiful signs live on forever.
Yokohama, Japan

Hara Model Railway Museum

The largest collection of model trains in the world is actually run using full-size locomotive technology.
Tokyo, Japan

Zauo

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.
Da Nang, Vietnam

Fire-Breathing Dragon Bridge

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.
Bahamas

SS Sapona

A steamer run aground near Bimini lives a second life as a playground for scuba divers.
Los Angeles, California

Space Shuttle Endeavour

The final resting place of a space program monolith.
New York, New York

Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.
Los Angeles, California

Global Effects, Inc.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.
Mexico City, Mexico

Cafebrería El Péndulo

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Giant Ants

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.
Santa Cruz, California

Court of Mysteries

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.
Jamestown, North Dakota

Legendary Albino Buffalo

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.
Gryfino, Poland

Crooked Forest

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.
Dallas, Texas

Adrian E. Flatt, M.D., Hand Collection

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.
Seattle, Washington

Old Ballard Liquor Co.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.
London, England

Bunhill Fields

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.
Inyo County, California

Saline Valley Hot Springs

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.
Tokyo, Japan

Kabukicho Robot Restaurant

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.
Albuquerque, New Mexico

ATLAS-I

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.
Monselice, Italy

Church of San Giorgio

This Italian church is as beautiful as it is common, except for the real skulls decorating the many mannequins inside.
Flintshire, Wales

Duke of Lancaster

Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.