Places mikedominelli Wants to Go

A mysterious emblem tucked in an small alleyway is actually the coat of arms of a heroic medieval family.

Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.

The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Not quite the cultural gateway between China and Sweden its designer imagined.

With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

A flamboyant five-story building in Bulgaria resembles a crawling snail.

This isolated community does not want you to visit.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .