Places adamantum Wants to Go

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

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

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.

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

Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

A 200-year-old tavern challenges guests to finish a glass of wine while hanging from a ceiling beam.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."