Places adrienneleighm Wants to Go

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

The only electricity pylon built over two lanes of traffic.

A museum in Hokkaido is housed in a former high school. On its grounds a marker shares the awakening of a man who longs to be reunited with his soulmate in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

A bovine sumo match in which both bulls live to fight another day.

Disaster prevention apartment blocks in Sumida Ward are designed to save as many as possible in the face of the inevitable.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

The world's largest radiation field is probably our best bet for irradiated vegetable superheroes.

"The Dance of Fools" is Japan's largest dance festival.

A museum dedicated to the least secret spy is actually an attempt to get Hollywood's attention.

A statue erected on an infamous cliff where young boys would hold dangerous "pee offs" to prove their mettle.

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

Museum dedicated to the largest battleship ever built.

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.