Places lepainperdu Wants to Go

In eastern Oregon, two mineral hot springs sit along the Malheur River in a fairly desolate area where peace and quiet are abound.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

This refurbished gas station is one of the oldest in Texas, located on the original Route 66.

A 110-foot concrete dinosaur once sold fossil fuel from its belly.

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

Bodie's 20th-century rival was a paragon of respectability and calm—but the mines eventually ran dry.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

California's first suspension bridge.

The oldest orange tree in California spawned a generation of citrus farmers.

These markers are used to determine the ground stability of the Strip.

The largest recovered section of Titanic sits in a hotel in Las Vegas.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

Wisconsin’s oldest Chinese restaurant, still glowing beneath its historic neon sign.

Two James Beard Award-winning chefs are putting their own spin on Filipino favorites in a food market stall.

Hidden in a Hollywood apartment, this restaurant takes diners on a gastronomic journey through West Africa.

Get to know the plant-based fare of Chinese Buddhist monks.

Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

An enchanting tunnel of cypress trees leads to an old morse code station still used today.

In the 1930s, people used to take boats from the mainland to see this Art Deco venue.