Places lepainperdu Wants to Go

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

20-foot tall lamp mumbles Swedish to celebrate the holidays.

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Successful artist residence program has filled this ranch with dozens of sculptures over the years.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.