Places KatKamakura Wants to Go

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

These ruins have been linked to a sherbet factory that exploded, but the story may be entirely fictional.

An oversized Van Gogh reproduction is one of three massive sunflower paintings across the globe.

A former elementary school houses one man's extensive collection of art, artifacts, and taxidermy.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's 1943 book shares a surprising connection with El Salvador.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

This sidewalk tribute honors Colorado's great culinary creation.

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

This imprint of an old computer keyboard has a unique backstory.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.