Places AdOYo Wants to Go

Three tiny islands in a Portsmouth pond are at the center of disputed land claims from a number of competing micronations.

The oldest surviving stele in Japan is a personal dedication from a monk to his late mother.

The collection of a paranormal investigator who traveled the country collecting haunted items and stories.

Before firefighters, villagers relied on this simple hook to save their thatched cottages from a fiery doom.

A small stone monument marks the spot on Stavely Road where the first of hundreds of missiles touched down during World War II.

This World War II bunker is now a shrine covered with sea shells.

A narrow, dead-end alley hides with a small fox shrine and the untold history of Yokohama's historic red-light district.

A free ferry service has run between these two English villages since 1885.

The first German gnome who popularized the garden decoration.

Chronicling the history of Thailand’s unique currencies, from the silver “bullet money” to porcelain gambling tokens of various shapes.

This small square basin behind a quiet church was once a popular medieval pilgrimage site.

This historic Erasmus statue was first mistaken for a legendary Chinese inventor, then as a child-eating hag.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

Celebrating the history of Hangul, the Korean writing system invented by King Sejong to improve his realm’s literacy.

A gorgeous, nostalgic café housed in a lofty old warehouse, lit only by petroleum lamps.

Thanks to wordplay, the earthquake-causing catfish monster has become a god of confidence at this shrine.

Hundreds of statues of Buddha’s disciples meditating, napping, sneezing, and picking their noses.

The site where the Emperor of Korea performed the long-forbidden "rite of heaven" to demonstrate his absolute sovereignty.

A bizarre statue of a Buddhist goddess made from 20,000 insects.

Where visitors can play more than 150 retro arcade games.

A quirky statue in Bermondsey made by 100 public participants with goggles, chisels, and mallets.

Each year this small English village becomes overrun with outlandish straw men.

It holds a fabulously designed tribute to astronomer Edmond Halley.

Rare and wonderfully wormy cadaver art captured in brass for centuries.