Places alykat Wants to Go

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

Along the side of the road on a small Japanese island is an extensive garden of uniquely designed Shisa statues.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

A rare wayfinding portmanteau of “Street” and “Avenue.”

This collection of neon icons is preserving Arizona's history, one sign at a time.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

A stark reminder of the huge nuclear weapons plant that once stood on the site and its effect on the surrounding area.

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

Antique automobiles, phonographs, organs, and farm equipment.

The clock that sets them all.

A research lab and hands-on museum where visitors can experiment with retro technology.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

Iconic rock formations that allow for exploration during high or low tide.

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.