Places Kanashii Wants to Go

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

A tiny village in Upstate New York ushered in the precursor to drive-in movies.

From under the bed of one of the co-founders, this server helped launch the notorious file-sharing website.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A festival where people vie to be bombarded by exploding clusters of fireworks.

One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.

This Cold War–era underground city includes offices for Mao Zedong and Lin Biao.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

Giant origami crease patterns engraved in Santa Monica intersections may even be visible from space.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

These expertly crafted, scientifically accurate glass sea creatures were once an international phenomenon.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Locals believe the purity of this huge, untouched Arctic lake could be the salvation of human civilization.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.