Places Marbles07 Wants to Go

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

This monument pays tribute to the city’s contribution to basketball history.

This post-war motel embodies a little-known, Miami-born architectural style.

A historic hydroelectric power plant serves as the unusual backdrop for a public park.

An eclectic store sells obscure vinyl recordings of Charles Manson and Jim Jones, along with many other oddities.

A synth musician's paradise at the heart of a community responsible for the soundtrack to 'Stranger Things.'

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

Loyal fans of one television's most famous painters still come to pay their respects.

An unusual slot canyon in the Aztec/Navajo Sandstone has a cross-section like an inverted old-fashioned keyhole.

The United States' first transcontinental automobile road came to its end at this spot in San Francisco's Lincoln Park.

The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.

In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

When Joseph Marconnott died, he had a unique final wish: to be mummified and put on display.

A Hell's Kitchen synagogue that has counted stars of stage and screen among its congregation.

Dine on ceviche tacos in the sea at this floating restaurant only accessible by boat.

The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.

A memorial to Chinese freedom in the city where American freedom was born.

This hotel was the site of major events in sports and radio history. It was also used as a detention center during World War II.

This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

America’s oldest community theater, this Boston club has been in operation since 1877.

A centuries-old church stands as a testament to Boston's "father of architecture."

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.