Places aliciamccarthy88 Wants to Go

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

After a short 5 year run, this former major theme park sits in ruin.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

A moss-covered statue of a Japanese Buddhist deity stands at a quiet temple in downtown Osaka.

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

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

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

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

An anthropological theme park that depicts the cultures of around 20 different countries.

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

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

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.