Washington, D.C.
Atlas Performing Arts Center
The revival of a classic Art Deco theater.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Washington, D.C.
The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum
Garments from across the globe call this hidden gem home.
Washington, D.C.
Marilyn Monroe Mural
A tribute to the pop culture icon overlooks this Washington D.C. intersection.
Washington, D.C.
Murals at Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Library
In an alcove of this historic library, you can find murals painted in the 1930s by an artist who went on to create some of Disney's most iconic animated films.
Washington, D.C.
Strom Party Animal
A public art jibe at one of the United States’ oldest and longest-serving senators.
Washington, D.C.
The National Gallery's Art Materials Collection
The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.
Washington, D.C.
Hall of Fake Presidents
Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.
Washington, D.C.
Art Museum of the Americas
The most magical part of this Latin American and Caribbean art museum is a room covered in beautiful blue tiles from floor to ceiling.
Washington, D.C.
Ben's Chili Bowl Mural
A gorgeous mural outside a beloved D.C. restaurant pays homage to famous Black Americans.
Washington, D.C.
Howard Theatre
Through the decades, Black music stars have performed at this historic hub for music and the arts.
Washington, D.C.
Renwick Gallery
The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.
Washington, D.C.
'Ginevra de’ Benci' Portrait
The only Leonardo Da Vinci painting in the Western Hemisphere.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Sunken Gardens
A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.
Port Royal, Jamaica
Sunken Pirate City at Port Royal
Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."
Los Angeles, California
Sunken City
Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.
Venice, Italy
The Flooded Crypt of San Zaccaria
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
East Sussex, England
Seven Sisters Cliffs
These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston Hat Man
An advertising mural tempering the behavior of Charleston’s children since the late 1800s.
Brussels, Belgium
Cannonball in St. Nicholas Church
This cannonball has been lodged in the church wall since a 1695 bombardment destroyed the city center.
St. Augustine, Florida
Castillo de San Marcos
The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.
Southampton, England
Southampton Wall Cannonballs
Many mysteries surround these objects questioning whether they are cannonballs at all.
Paris, France
Cannonball of the Hotel de Sens
A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.
Naarden, Netherlands
Grote Kerk Cannonballs
The Siege of Naarden ended in 1814, but the cannonballs embedded in the town church remain.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Cannonball House
This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.
