Places Bagungus Wants to Go

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

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

A museum housed in a stunning Rockefeller-funded medical institute building from the 1930s.

Once the park closes at sunset, the greatest haiku poet of all time moves to face the Sumida River.

Installed in 1965, this whimsical slide has spawned a brood of “octopus mountains” across Japan.

A beautiful work of art designed to impress the Allied Forces.

Guarding the city of Chiyoda is a bizarre insectile creature with a name no one can pronounce.

Rumored to be a giant robot in disguise, this colossal chef has been the beloved symbol of Tokyo’s kitchenware district for decades.

A site where ten to twenty thousand Edo-era prisoners were put to death.

The only natural gorge in metropolitan Tokyo, with lots of greenery and ancient burial chambers.

This abandoned, spaceship-like building is home to a museum so unpopular that it has been put on hiatus for over two decades.

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

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

One of three official copies of Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic masterpiece is on display in an obscure Tokyo museum.

This infamous execution site inspired the beginning of Japan's modernization in the late 18th-century.

The buildings are among the few Frank Lloyd Wright structures still standing in Japan.

Visitors to this park are welcomed by an ancient Japanese megalithic tomb that dates back to the sixth century.

A hole-in-the-wall antiquities museum in one of Tokyo's most popular megamalls.

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.