Places Edited by Anna Minster

A beautiful, historic location open to the public.

This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.

The temporary burial site of the man who shot and killed Jesse James.

This giant rock arrived at this quiet park thousands of years ago on the back of a massive glacier.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

A mysterious monument covered in a binary code marks the heart of tech.

This crumbling industrial fortress has attracted daredevils, filmmakers, and historians.

After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.

A patch of contaminated land reclaimed as a scrappy sculptural oasis.

A playground the size of a city block is a modernist monument to civic values and public housing.

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

Filled with history, this cemetery is maintained each summer by a few hungry goats.

Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

The first commercial nuclear power plant constructed on Long Island.

A fire station-turned-church-turned-museum dedicated to the work of seminal light artist Dan Flavin.

Forever immortalized in concrete, this Simpsons etching was crafted by show creator Matt Groening.

A tribute to the hard-working men and women of Grumman, who crafted F-14 fighter jets.

The only house in Oregon designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

The home of former Heavyweight Boxing Champion, "Gentleman Jim" Corbett.

This 19th-century Hamptons windmill was once home to modernist painter Agnes Pelton.

A giant sculpture dedicated to a staple of South Bend food culture.