Places lepainperdu Wants to Go

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

Some of the smallest works of art in existence.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

The traditional Polish croissant, folded 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe, is a legally protected cultural treat.