Places lepainperdu Wants to Go

A striking circle of basalt columns perched on Ibiza’s rugged western coast, aligning art, astronomy, and myth in a landscape where time seems to stand still.

This Ibiza botanical garden showcases some wild machines that run on plants, literally.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?

Home to a dizzying array of letterpress blocks with a rich history.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

Star garnets are so rare that you can only find them in two places on Earth—here, you can dig for them.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

A caravanserai turned into a museum showcasing the mastery of local carpenters.

This former royal palace with gorgeous gardens became the first museum in Morocco.