Places anewell2s Wants to Go

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

Crispy, cheesy rice balls—the Roman answer to arancini—take center stage here.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

This hidden alley near the location of Rome's first theater was the site of a curious miracle.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

You can receive a blessing for your electronics at this Shinto shrine near Akihabara.

Outside of where Tsukiji Market once stood, these memorials honor the spirits of the fallen fish, shrimp, and eggs used for nigiri.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

This 400-year-old noodle joint was once frequented by a fox-turned-monk, according to local folklore.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

A touching statue dedicated to Japan's first therapy dog.

A commemoration of the first Dutchman to reach Japan, whose name still echoes in the heart of Tokyo.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Peer into this window for an interesting glimpse into the public utilities that make this city run.

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

Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.

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

Tell this pair of "love-inviting" cats in Ginza your romantic hopes.

Luminaries from Albert Einstein to John Lennon once had a cup of coffee at Tokyo's oldest café.

A lonely chimpanzee lures you into a narrow alley leading to this hidden shrine.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

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

A few hidden stones are said to bring fortune and love.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.