Places jonasgoessaert Wants to Go

Japan’s tallest Godzilla statue contains a piece of the original 1954 film within its base.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.

Japan's first train station is also the site of Godzilla's first destructive visit to the nation.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

Unchanged for decades, World War II-era bullet holes and nostalgic ghost signs still haunt this desolate train station.

Tokyo’s “Kitchen Town” hosts a number of shops selling intricate food replicas.

The largest collection of model trains in the world is actually run using full-size locomotive technology.

A small laundromat covered wall-to-ceiling with portrait drawings.

This gnome sculpture and his wonderous hat forces train passengers to do a double-take.

A 17th-century Shinto shrine that is home to statues of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.

The ancient Greeks abandoned this quarry to escape Hannibal's devastating invasion.

These ruins of a Phoenician sanctuary in Sicily have a dark history.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.

This tiny alleyway is now a shrine to a subculture riot between the mods and rockers.