Places rbenoff Wants to Go

A 57-foot stained-glass dome from a Parisian tango house now crowns a wine bar in the San Bernardino Mountains.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

These were the largest wind chimes in the world when artist Tom Van Sant created them for a California mall in 1967.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

Nestled in Coachella Valley, this museum transports guests from the Mesozoic Era, to the land of Egyptian kings.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Mexican food and folk art.

A living museum dedicated to the legendary woodworker and his soulful furniture.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

What was once a vast naval cemetery is now home to nesting birds and pollinating bees.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.