Places Cindy Cesare Wants to Go

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

This graveyard boasts a medley of diverse and imaginative funeral architecture.

Get a privileged view over Mexico City's Historic Center from a terrace right in its heart.

A grand entrance to one of the world's smallest Chinatowns.

The former headquarters of a leader in the Mexican Revolution, and the site of an often-reproduced image.

The tragic heiress Barbara Woolworth Hutton built her seventh husband this Japanese-inspired palace in Mexico.

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Remnants of the United States's largest accidental oil spill still mar a California valley.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

These five Art Deco homes were meant to solve the "small house problem."

An out of this world experience.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

In the 1940s, Italian architect Mario Cavallè built a dozen of these round homes in northern Milan.

In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.