Bluffton is lucky to have one of the best pizzerias in northeast Indiana, one of the funniest mayors and one of the most pleasingly designed public spaces devoted to art and art-making.

The Creative Arts Center of Wells County is in the Arts & Commerce Center along the banks of the Wabash River.

The exterior of the building is lined with strolling pathways and is dotted with tables and benches.

It’s a wonderful place to create art, watch art being created, or just wander around unawares thinking, “What are all these artists doing here?”

For a limited time, it is also a place to explore more obscure places.

Bluffton photographer Deb Perry has recently opened an exhibit called “Un-Scene: Wells County’s Hidden Places.”

Perry is a former journalist who came up with an ingenious premise for a show: What if she used her pictorial and compositional skills to take people to places in Wells County that they don’t usually have access to?

For example: behind a clock in a clock tower, into a bison feeding area and to the bottom of a quarry.

Some of the locales were a little scary, and Perry is far from fearless. But her camera gave her courage.

“I will do anything with a camera in my hand,” she says. “I am usually a timid person, but the world looks more manageable through a tiny viewfinder.”

The only gap she couldn’t bring herself to ford was the one between top rung and plank platform in the bell tower of First Baptist Church.

Access to the bell tower involves two ladders and a leap of faith (literally and figuratively).

Perry may have had the faith, but she didn’t think she had the leaping strength.

Thanks to these adventures, Perry now has facts that she did not before possess.

She now knows that bison make a kind of purring sound and that the mounds of stone at the bottom of IMI Stone Quarry are covered with coyote tracks.

An essay by Perry accompanies each series, and she will conduct a guided tour of her exhibit at an opening reception starting at 1 p.m. March 14.

Perry’s manner of hanging the exhibit is fairly unique as well. While the pictures are digital, the show resembles prints hung out to dry in a darkroom.

Even though Perry’s day job is as community relations manager at the Wells County Public Library, this exhibit certainly hearkens to her days as a features reporter, photojournalist and editor working for such publications as the Ossian Journal and the Berne Tri-Weekly.

Perry recalls one assignment that she wasn’t looking forward to initially.

“I had to interview an asparagus farmer,” she recalls. “So he is taking me on a tour of his farm and suddenly he says, ‘You know, this looks better from the air.’ ”

The farmer threw open a barn door to reveal a small plane, Perry says.

Perry subsequently became one of the few people in history to gasp and hoot while gazing upon asparagus.