Places lepainperdu Wants to Go

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

An urban laboratory.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Thousands of small machines line the shelves of this personal collection which definitely delivers on its name.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

This Ukraine alleyway has become its own little island of forgotten things.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

This secluded Iceland farm holds the collected works of one rural sculptor's creations.

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.