Places mikedominelli Wants to Go

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

A retrofuturistic art installation in the Pittsburgh Airport.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

The splendor of this 17th century golden chapel has led it to be called the "eighth wonder of the world."

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Politicians, bureaucrats, and military officers gathered in this field near the Capitol to settle their disputes with blood.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.