Places nealpwright Wants to Go

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.