Places mikedominelli Wants to Go

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.

This unique Lady Liberty is one of the only examples of the figure sitting down.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

This ultra-modern wooden boardwalk turns the ocean into a swimming pool.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

Inside, ancient treasures. Outside, modern contradictions.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.