Washington, D.C.
FBI Spy House
A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Washington, D.C.
A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.
Gulfport, Mississippi
A brick-lined alley full of public artwork tucked away in downtown Gulfport.
Rothwell, England
A stretch of land where the sour-sweet vegetable is cloaked in darkness and grows so fast you can hear it crack, squeak, and pop.
Paris, France
This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.
Yucca Valley, California
A meditative space out of a fantasy story.
Powell, Tennessee
A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.
Denver, Colorado
A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.
Shanghai, China
This theme park presents 5,000 years of Shanghai history and includes a "sunken" exhibition hall.
Tokyo, Japan
Unbeknownst to most passersby, this marble statue standing outside an office building is a genuine piece of second-century Rome.
Kilmacolm, Scotland
A missing Roman legion was recreated in sculpture along a Scottish cycling route.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.
Kaunas, Lithuania
The world's first invisible city square is an homage to a man who pushed the boundaries of art.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Cartoon clouds and nature-inspired murals have transformed the streets of Kuala Lumpur.
Paris, France
This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.
Old Station, California
Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.
Bena, Minnesota
An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.
Tokyo, Japan
Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.
San Francisco, California
This Alamo Square mansion is rumored to have hosted satanic rituals and other occult practices.
Gerlach, Nevada
A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.
Istanbul, Turkey
Step back in time and witness the fall of Constantinople.
Istanbul, Turkey
This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.
Montreal, Québec
This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.
Bar Nunn, Wyoming
A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.
San Bernardino, California
These structures were inspired by both Native American shelters as well as, strangely, an ice cream shop.