Places brnskll Wants to Go

A surprisingly detailed model of one of the most powerful telescopes in the world.

An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.

There are more than 4 million bricks inside this unofficial Lego museum in a former middle school.

Many cities have held the title, but Brazil snatched the crown from Chile in 2011.

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

Every spring, this walkway outside the Japan Mint turns into a cherry blossom tunnel.

Visit a speakeasy-like indie cinema specializing in 16mm and 35mm films.

One of the only two archaeological sites in Japan to feature petroglyphs, which some believe to be a long-lost writing system of the gods.

This futuristic public park includes large sculptures and an artificial geyser.

An open-air museum exhibiting a total of 52 century-old buildings, recreating Hokkaido’s “pioneer village.”

Learn about the indigenous people of Japan's northernmost islands.

Inaccessible by foot, Japan's most secluded train station sits in the middle of nowhere.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

Legend says the goddess this shrine honors curses any couples that pass by.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

Visitors to this museum will discover that kaleidoscopes are much more than toys.

The world's longest tunnel with an undersea section.

This garden located inside a bamboo forest once belonged to a famous Japanese actor.

Hidden by the roadside in the Iya Valley, this gem brings together folk monsters and the region's unique geography.

The traditional houses along the coast of this charming Japanese fishing village allow people to sleep above the sea.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

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

Existing for more than four centuries, the last of Hakone’s historic teahouses serves a sweet, mold-based rice drink.

A mysterious set of tunnels carved in the hills of rural northern Kyushu.