Dallas, Texas
'Eye' Sculpture
This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Dallas, Texas
This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.
Austin, Texas
This convenience store-turned-brewpub serves up inventive Indian cuisine and a wide selection of beers.
West, Texas
Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.
Salem, Massachusetts
The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
Rochester, Minnesota
This water tower has been a staple of the Rochester skyline since 1931.
Montauk, New York
A mysterious air force base built to resemble a Long Island fishing village.
Galway, Ireland
A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."
Belfast, Northern Ireland
This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.
Dublin, Ireland
This 18th-century fort surrounded by a moat was used to store gun powder and ammunition, and now sits in the middle of a large park in Dublin.
Dublin, Ireland
The oldest public library in Ireland.
Dublin, Ireland
Dublin's most modern, visually spectacular bridge is modeled after Ireland's national emblem.
Dublin, Ireland
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
Dublin, Ireland
The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.
Dublin, Ireland
The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.
Riverside, California
Mexican food and folk art.
Los Angeles, California
Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.
Los Angeles, California
Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
An anonymous art project beneath Longfellow Bridge where hundreds of trophies line the steel support beams.
Boston, Massachusetts
This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."
Boston, Massachusetts
In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.
Boston, Massachusetts
This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.