Places mrholland66801 Wants to Go

A Soviet-era health spa complete with radioactive bathing and shock therapy.

Japan’s only surviving winding tower.

This futuristic-looking museum was built for the centennial of Japan's most innovative toilet.

The site of a famous samurai duel.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

The strange “kaiju” of Lake Imba that allegedly killed over a dozen men with a single strike of lightning.

This prehistoric site is home to the largest shell midden cluster in Japan.

A small park inhabited by handmade water goblins.

A bizarre assault of surreal art hiding in bushes and huts on a hill.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

Though it won't take you far, the wood train housed at this station is the last of its kind in Japan.

Plagued with warts? Leave a frog at this small shrine in the city of Tosa, and you may be cured.

A heart-shaped rock hollow amid lush scenery in Japan.

A town's namesake rock has served as a spiritual matchmaker for hundreds of years.

Ward off bad luck and fill your bottle with "the most watery water" at this little roadside shrine in Yonezawa.

The home of Mario and his friends

The only Kurdish restaurant in Japan invites you to learn and feast.

This iconic sluice gate is a favorite haunt for joggers, fishing enthusiasts, and even ghost hunters.

Thousands of foxes are said to gather and parade across the neighborhood of Ōji on New Year’s Eve.

This time capsule lets you enjoy decades-old Japanese arcade games.

This jail once controlled by the Japanese military now sits abandoned on a remote Pacific island.

The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

A gorgeous gem on the ocean.

An abandoned lighthouse off the beaten path, one of the few surviving pre-World War II Japanese structures, offers a beautiful view.