Places adrienneleighm Wants to Go

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

Unlikely place for krautrock legends to hang out.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.

This mountain's identity is stuck somewhere between a nightmare and a scenic tourist attraction.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

This giant bronze Buddha, the third largest in Japan, is the last in an ill-fated series of statues.

Historical Japanese-Dutch relations are honored with haunted rides and flower fields in this replica town.