Places missrabbitmoon Wants to Go

This 46-foot-tall carving of a legendary Māori navigator can only be visited by boat.

This meticulously reconstructed early medieval settlement offers an immersive experience of daily life in an Anglo-Saxon community.

In the former treasury of a popular temple, a rare sculptural depiction of Kannon’s diverse avatars.

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

Retro as can be, this cinema still uses film reels and screens revivals of Shōwa-era hits and classics.

This vast and otherworldly landscape is one of the largest dune complexes in North America.

One man’s obsessive, 30-plus-year quest is behind the pies at this spot on the Lower East Side.

A glimpse into life in 1830s Tokyo, back during the heyday of the Tokugawa shogunate.

The first Venetian glass exhibit in Japan and one of the largest in the world.

A mile-long trail of pottery culture, full of clay pipes and lucky cats, including one that’s 12.5 feet tall.

Photographs of the faces of the town's dead cover the walls of this small Italian church.

A Gothic gym and community space that encourages fitness for misfits.

A monument to placate the spirits of an ancient forest.

A Guinness World Record-holding social enterprise whose shows don't shy away from heavy themes.

A complex of ancient Buddhist rock-cut caves with a large, well preserved prayer hall.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

This natural spring is the winter home to the largest gathering of manatees in the world.

What started as a tailor shop to help swimmers live their mermaid dreams has grown into a full-scale aquarium, complete with live mermaid shows.

An Iron Age hill fort turned scenic nature park.

Taxidermy reptiles and rodents put on quite the show at this local history museum.

According to legend, after Hades pulled Persephone into the underworld, one of her attendant nymphs cried so much that her tears formed this spring.

Local artists have long claimed these highway pylons as a place to celebrate Mexican-American history through artwork.

Also known as the Osaka Garden, this garden was originally built in 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.