Montreal, Québec
Biosphere of Montreal
Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Montreal, Québec
Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.
Dearborn, Michigan
The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.
Reno, Nevada
The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.
Ollantaytambo, Peru
Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.
Paris, France
A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.
South Lake Tahoe, California
One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.
San Francisco, California
The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.
San Francisco, California
Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.
Lisle, Illinois
A tribute to one granddaughter's old apartment which now represents the whims of each visitor.
San Francisco, California
Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.
London, England
A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.
Daly City, California
A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.
Vatican City
Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.
Chicago, Illinois
This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.
Chicago, Illinois
The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.
Chicago, Illinois
Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.
Chicago, Illinois
This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
Paris, France
This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.
Montreal, Québec
A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.
San Francisco, California
Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.
San Francisco, California
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
San Francisco, California
Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.
San Francisco, California
Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.