Places Kanashii Wants to Go

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

The nude sculpture on this fountain shocked conservative townsfolk when it was first unveiled, but not as much as the dead body found in it decades later.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

The grassy landscape is home to the world's last truly wild horses.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

3,000 family pets and military animals are buried in this London graveyard.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

This unusual piece of Renaissance art depicting the bodily horror of crucifixion and skin disease may have been inspired by fungus-induced hallucinations.

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

The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

A palatial horse museum outside Shanghai is home to the most pampered horses in the world.