Places lepainperdu Wants to Go

This enormous sports car themed amusement park is home to the world’s fastest roller coaster.

These otherworldly formations were shaped over millions of years by the forces of nature.

Many generations of travelers have passed through the steep, smooth walls of this canyon.

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

Sporting Brutalist architecture, this school is hidden amid a quiet suburban neighborhood.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

The longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi River.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

Walk down these stairs to get an underwater view of Switzerland's Lake Zug.

Kayak out to a floating restroom.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

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

This retro café is a remnant of Japan’s post-war Argentine tango craze.

Sip a cappuccino in the historic cafe that introduced them to the United States.

The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

Open since 1690, this former teahouse makes “strength mochi” based on the centuries-old recipe.

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

These turtle-shaped concrete stepping stones provide a unique river crossing in central Kyoto.

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

Have a soak at this retro bathhouse, where you will find Japan's first electric bath, tiling from Spain, and wood carvings representing the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.