Places lepainperdu Wants to Go

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

This cuddly rodent has a place of honor at a Russian institute for genetic research.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.

Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.

This hotel has hardly changed in over a century, like a time capsule of old Oregon.

All aboard the world's longest miniature railway.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

An impressive century-old, to-scale topographical map of Guatemala.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.