Places bsuto Wants to Go

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

An abandoned Art Deco hotel nestled on the side of a wooded mountain.

Nestled amid the trees lies an abandoned funicular railway that dates back to the 1920s.

Is this cat asleep or just pretending?

Tragic reminders of the 1945 firebombing campaign over Tokyo still haunt this bridge.

This tiny stone in a children's park is what remains of an ancient, once-worshipped object.

A dilapidated amusement park with a million-dollar view.

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

Officially the lowest mountain in Japan.

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

A sad reminder of the World War II bombing stands largely unnoticed on a street corner.

The train engine is tucked under an apartment building on a quiet Tokyo street.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

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

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

Ruins and statues dot the landscape of this tiny island rich with royal history.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

This high-design church is made up of two dizzying spirals meant to evoke the weaving together of marriage.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

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

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...