Places lepainperdu Wants to Go

These unique toilets feature transparent glass covered in PDLC film.

One of three official copies of Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic masterpiece is on display in an obscure Tokyo museum.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

This 1930s log cabin began as a taxidermy museum but is now a popular country music venue.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

A unique museum where guests can rent and operate a locomotive.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.