Places breaingram Wants to Go

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

The pharmacy's retro ice cream mixer is one of the last of its kind.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.

The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

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

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

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.