Places mikedominelli Wants to Go

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

This odd little museum holds exhibits on everything from blacksmith equipment to hair jewelry.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

The remains of the furnace and iron works that produced the massive Hudson River Chain still stand in the woods of New York.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.