Places pshawraven Wants to Go

Loyal fans of one television's most famous painters still come to pay their respects.

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

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

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

This historic home of the author of Lawrence of Arabia, has a history of literary celebrities and monogrammed sleeping bags.

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.