Places lepainperdu Wants to Go

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Delve into a wealth of oddities, antiques, and taxidermy treasures.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

The site of the house Jack Parsons made famous both in life and death.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

One of few remaining antique carousels with stationary animals in the U.S.