Places Beezus Wants to Go

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

A precursor to Taro Okamoto’s iconic Tower of the Sun.

This quirky collection of furniture also happens to be a public art installation.

This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

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

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

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.