Places albastarr Wants to Go

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

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

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

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.”

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

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

A downtown filled with nearly deserted historic buildings was revived as a pastel paradise.

The oldest active juke joint in the state sustains a niche school of blues guitar.

A cheeky alleyway window hosts tiny rotating exhibits with outsized charm.

Whimsical bronze sculptures of smiling coins and houses await visitors to this park.

This humble hole-in-the-wall is home to an incredible pig ear sandwich and serious civil rights history.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

This roadside attraction in the woods of Mississippi is a scalable replica of the Holy Lands during biblical times.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

These ornate manhole covers were used for a now-forgotten purpose.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.