Places mikedominelli Wants to Go

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

Seven golden statues rise into the sky from sculptor Victor Victori's New Jersey front lawn.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

One of the oldest Catholic churches in the U.S., situated just east of Gettysburg.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

This seaworthy collection was sparked by one man's passion for sailing.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.