Places ATX Mike Wants to Go

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

Unlikely place for krautrock legends to hang out.

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

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

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

Underground farm located in a former bank vault deep within the bowels of Tokyo's business district.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

This former coal mine has been turned into a sprawling modern art complex.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

A museum dedicated to the least secret spy is actually an attempt to get Hollywood's attention.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.

A retiree's challenge to build an outdoor wonderland out of trash.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.