Places Rijaco2 Wants to Go

One of just five sand-floor Jewish synagogues in the world.

Renowned restaurant tucked in a cave once occupied by buccaneers.

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

The legacy of a wealthy executive and his wife, this little-known art museum features works by Picasso, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, and more.

They sort through millions of dollars worth of diplomatic gifts on behalf of the government.

The most magical part of this Latin American and Caribbean art museum is a room covered in beautiful blue tiles from floor to ceiling.

The grand marble structure next to the White House is Andrew Carnegie's temple to Pan-American diplomacy.

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

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

The subtle interplay of fire and water is hard to ignore at this remote Jamaican spring.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

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

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

A collection of mechanical beasts with some interesting names.

Retirement home where the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West passed away.