Places Kanashii Wants to Go

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

The large fjord lake is thought to be the home of "Ogopogo," a giant sea serpent.

A collection of more than 1,000 teddies from nearly any profession.

This Italian ski resort rose to fame when Benito Mussolini was held prisoner there and then rescued by the SS.

Colorful umbrella-covered trees in Singapore's Little India look straight out of Dr. Seuss.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

One family's mission to exemplify sustainability took on a whole new life as a surprisingly beautiful home.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

A fairy garden in an old hotel hidden in La Marquesa forest.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

Scattered monuments in the middle of the Sahara dedicated to the late Egyptian actor and desert explorer.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.

A Himalayan monastery claims to have a piece of a centuries-old abominable snowman.

This network of tunnels housed an entire village for years, and even had a hall for screening movies.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.