Places bennybonz Wants to Go

A commemoration of the first Dutchman to reach Japan, whose name still echoes in the heart of Tokyo.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

This theme park is not in Tokyo, not especially German, and certainly not a village.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

A forsaken beachfront condo abandoned after the Boxing Day Tsunami.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

Vintage furniture and art share space with all manner of collectibles at this quirky shop in Bangkok.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

This hydrochronometer was invented by a Dominican monk and is a prime feature in this garden.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.