Places emerkel Wants to Go

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

A 400-square foot model of historic Quebec is the playing field for a state of the art light and sound show.

This former prison now houses a lovely library devoted to Quebec's oft-maligned English-speaking history.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

This sprawling collection of saintly relics includes such fascinations as wood from the Cross of Jesus and threads from Mary's veil.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

Nineteen ancient rock-cut Buddhist caves can be found on the outskirts of Mumbai.

The only Chinese temple in Mumbai.

A Zoroastrian funerary tower where excarnation rituals are carried out is threatened by the area's dwindling vulture population.

In Mumbai, a bright blue synagogue is the largest one for the Baghdadi Jewish community in Asia.

The place of worship for Zoroastrians, Mumbai's Parsi fire temples use fire and ash for purification.

Tucked in Mumbai’s wealthiest neighborhood is one of the city’s oldest and most sacred sites: a temple complex believed to house the waters of the Ganges.

This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.