Places mikedominelli Wants to Go

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

Stay overnight in the world's most sleekly designed rabbit hole, free of charge.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

This still-celebrated home was a radical architectural experiment in 3D De Stijl.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.

This enchanting rainforest hotel looks as though it grew from the forest itself.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

Once used to screen films for theater owners to rent, this historic building is now a start up hub.

This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

The most metal church of all time was built in record time because of an international, pious pissing contest.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

This university transit system is a 1970s vision of the future.