Places Bagungus Wants to Go

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

Hundreds of graffiti artists have decorated this flood-wall on the west bank of the Mississippi River.

This restaurant, art gallery, and nightlife hot spot is a love letter to Lagos from St. Louis.

When Joseph Marconnott died, he had a unique final wish: to be mummified and put on display.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

During the 19th-century, this park was a vital trading fort.

This unassuming riverbank is Missouri’s first designated site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

Old Muslim cemetery and resting place of folkloric creatures

These secretive tunnels were once the site of a Royal Air Force fuel reserve depot.

Legend holds that a tortoise turned itself into this island to save two shipwrecked sailors.