Places A.M. Brune Wants to Go

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

A desert in southeast Asia, complete with a beautiful lake covered in lotus flowers.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

This historic spot was where America's involvement in the Vietnam War officially came to an end.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

Life-sized painted illusions let pedestrians blend in with the street art.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.