Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The Crow's Nest at the Old Faithful Inn
An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.
Narragansett, Rhode Island
This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.
Vancouver, British Columbia
This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.
Toronto, Ontario
One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.
Newport, Rhode Island
Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.
Vatican City
Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.
Hamer, South Carolina
I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.
Montreal, Québec
Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.
Groton, Connecticut
The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.
Brighton, England
The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.
Brooklyn, New York
Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.
Rome, Italy
More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.
Venice, Italy
Venice's island of the dead.
Rome, Italy
A Nesting Doll of Churches.
Rome, Italy
A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.
Rome, Italy
The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!
Fall River, Massachusetts
Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.
Providence, Rhode Island
This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.
Providence, Rhode Island
An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.
Becket, Massachusetts
Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.