Places ashleypinnick Wants to Go

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

This seven story Japanese love hotel now stands in ruins.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

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

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

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

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

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

This Czech military museum is home to pink tank that was once a symbol of art and political rebellion.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.