London, England
Francis Bacon's Studio and Home
A plaque pays tribute to the artist's longtime London home.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
London, England
A plaque pays tribute to the artist's longtime London home.
Luso, Portugal
A majestic hotel for dreamers rises from the center of a fairytale wood.
Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic
The final resting place of Christopher Columbus - or possibly someone else.
Sterling, Virginia
These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.
Chantilly, Virginia
At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.
Arlington, Virginia
This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.
McLean, Virginia
The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.
Charleston, South Carolina
South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.
Bermuda
A tropical paradise once home to space exploration and military installations.
Nassau, Bahamas
Impressive sink holes fill this untouched old-growth forest in the Bahamas.
Dallas, Texas
A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Legend tells how a Spanish soldier disappeared from this isolated sentry box without a trace.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.
Indianapolis, Indiana
This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.
Indianapolis, Indiana
This stately clubhouse has showcased German-American culture for over a century.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.
Chicago, Illinois
This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.
Chicago, Illinois
Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.
Kyiv, Ukraine
This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."
Marrakesh, Morocco
Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.