Places lepainperdu Wants to Go

A Biblically-based Natural History Museum.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

The toilet-shaped house of South Korea's sanitation pioneer is now a museum to the john.

The world's largest pineapple building honors Bathurst's favorite fruit.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A magical work of architecture where a wind turbine enables monks to levitate.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.