Places KatKamakura Wants to Go

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.

The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

Four tons of weapons merge together in a memorial against violence.

This trippy wonderland is the result of one man's obsessive, decades long passion project.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.