Places lepainperdu Wants to Go

3,200-square-foot mural inside Dartmouth Library depicts the history of America with images of human sacrifice, ancient gods, and other unspeakable terrors.

Tracing a path of more than four miles around a frozen lake, this is the longest skate trail in the United States.

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

A beautiful old horse stable hosts one of the largest collections of domestic animal skeletons and taxidermy.

The once-booming fox ranching industry has left its mark on Prince Edward Island.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.

The only Kurdish restaurant in Japan invites you to learn and feast.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is home to one of Polynesia’s largest petroglyph fields.

Images chiseled into the basalt here date back an estimated 300 years.

A cooled lava flow from the Haleakalā volcano formed these surreal-looking columnar basalt structures.

This Hawaiian cattle ranch acts as a museum devoted to the island cowboys that predate the wild west.

A priest with no formal artistic training used basic house paint to create gorgeous religious scenes inside this historic church.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

A subterranean relic of the Spanish Civil War hides below this picturesque park.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

Built in the early 70s, the ruins of dinosaurs are all that remains of a man’s dream to build a free dinosaur themed mini golf course

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.