Places lepainperdu Wants to Go

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

This unique, full-sized copy of the Bayeux Tapestry sports a few modern additions, including underwear.

This old-fashioned candy shop, ice cream parlor, and diner served as the setting for one of TV's most controversial series finales.

The eccentric midcentury home of a suspected mafia gun-runner.

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.

This Portland Art gallery doubles as a studio that supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.