Places CoolCrab Wants to Go

This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.

The only Edo-period ferry that is still in operation in Tokyo today.

A 17th-century Shinto shrine that is home to statues of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

This ordinary set of steps is a must-see destination for fans of a certain romantic anime.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

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.

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.”

A 1000-year-old shrine in Kyoto with a poorly planned sacred arch.

A strip of traditional hand towel serves as an admission ticket at this modern tenugui museum.

A nondescript building is home to a one-room museum filled with an overwhelming array of art and objects.

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

The first location of the eventual video game giant.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

This tree was once used to calculate the decrease of the Baltic Sea.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.