Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design

This guide to Shangri La in Honolulu follows Doris Duke, a twenty-two-year-old heiress who arrived on Oahu on what was meant to be a brief honeymoon stopover. It traces how a visit to the Taj Mahal in Agra reshaped her taste, leading to a marble bedroom shipped from India and, eventually, this oceanfront house built between 1936 and 1938, blending Moroccan, Persian and Mughal design around courtyards and reflecting pools. Walk the lanais slowly; she kept reworking the rooms for nearly sixty years.