Places aafrancione Wants to Go

Walls of VHS tapes adorn this Golden Gai B horror movie themed bar.

Exploring crime and punishment in feudal and pre-modern Japan.

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

This museum showcases the art of ancient sword-making.

This bar is filled with Star Wars merchandise from around the world, all of it unlicensed knockoffs.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

Celebrating an art form with a collection of puppets from all over the world.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.