Detroit, Michigan
Geodesic Dome House
Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Detroit, Michigan
Detroit Masonic Temple
The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Graffiti Alley - Ann Arbor
An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.
Detroit, Michigan
Michigan Theatre
Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.
Dearborn, Michigan
Dymaxion House
The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor’s Fairy Doors
The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.
Brooklyn, New York
Gage & Tollner
Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.
New York, New York
Skyscraper Museum
An institution dedicated to the towering buildings that make up skylines in New York City and around the world.
New York, New York
Long Lines Building
An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.
New York, New York
Berlin Wall Section
A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.
New York, New York
Jacques Derrida's Favorite Banana Bread
The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.
New York, New York
Collyer Brothers Park
Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.
New York, New York
Rivers Cosmogram
A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.
New York, New York
The Press Room
Home to a dizzying array of letterpress blocks with a rich history.
New York, New York
The John Street Methodist Church
The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.
New York, New York
Mysterious Bookshop
The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.
Permanently Closed
New York, New York
NYC Barber Museum
This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.
New York, New York
Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater
This theater opened in 1998, but both the building and the puppeteers who perform there have a distinguished history.
New York, New York
Site of New York Slave Market
Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.
New York, New York
Jean-Michel Basquiat Commemorative Plaque
The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.
New York, New York
Nero Wolfe's Brownstone
The home of one of America's most beloved fictional characters has become a real world landmark.
New York, New York
New York Produce Exchange Property Marker
A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.
New York, New York
Day & Meyer, Murray & Young
Storage warehouse of the rich and famous.
New York, New York
Rudolph de Harak Digital Clock
The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.
