Places bauke Wants to Go

Kawaii meets poisonous at this unique art gallery.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

A unique work of automotive art calls this shopping center home.

This 14th century wine cellar is home to the oldest barrel-stored wine in the world.

The site where the famous city gate once stood, now in the middle of a playground.

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

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

Why a column on the entrance is inscribed with a verse from the Quran is one of Sicily's many mysteries.

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

This Dutch statue is a monument to the fictional shrew who brought doom to the city of Stavoren.

This century-old street sign is a forgotten remnant of the old city.

The remnants of a WWI naval mine that once terrorized the country now decorates a street.

Small transmitter operated by a priest in the Netherlands.

A giant yellow phallus sculpture hidden in the gardens of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.

Walk through the history of a Dutch truck manufacturer, from 1928 to today.

This early 19th-century graveyard is the final resting place of Vincent van Gogh's mother.

The portrait of a man from Japan who sent weekly letters to a Dutch hotel he never visited.