Places Nicpicname Wants to Go

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

Created by Catalan artist Joan Miró in 1978 and made up of 350,000 tiles, this mural is the only large-scale glass mosaic the artist ever created.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

This small Japanese street is lined with figures, sculptures and a shrine dedicated to frogs.

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

A unique collection of drawings that represent Fremont Native American culture.

This rest area is also home to a remarkable petroglyph site.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

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

Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.