Places astrohans Wants to Go

This whimsical garbage disposal facility receives around 12,000 accidental tourists each year.

A museum run by retired highway engineers who helped rebuild after the Great Hanshin Earthquake.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

The decommissioned steam engine’s whistle can still be heard three times a day at one of Japan’s oldest train stations.

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

Unbeknownst to many, an ancient burial mound hides in plain sight in Ueno Park.

What was once believed to be a church floor turned out to be the artwork of geology.

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

A natural resemblance of the monster of film lore.

This spectrum of a star was observed by one of the world's most accurate spectrographs. 

Looking for the train station? Try the building shaped like a train.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

Organisms normally seen under a microscope decorate this church.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.