Places lepainperdu Wants to Go

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

This giant wire frame man sculpture is crouched in contemplation.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?