Places RVA101 Wants to Go

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

This Asian-inspired tower in a lush urban park provides spectacular panoramic views of Baltimore.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

In 1988, jazz legend Chet Baker fell to his death from a window of this hotel facing Amsterdam Centraal.

This bronze statue was dedicated to a 1966 Beatles hit.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

This Frank Lloyd Wright summer house was designed along Lake Erie as a retreat for a client's wife.

A notable example of Prairie School architecture that disregarded Victorian concepts about room divisions and featured a long, narrow floor plan.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

An institution dedicated to the towering buildings that make up skylines in New York City and around the world.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.