Places calton Wants to Go

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

The enigmatic sculpture hides above an escalator in a Milan metro station.

Nestled in the heart of Milan is a real wunderkammer of morbid curiosities.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

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

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

One of three official copies of Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic masterpiece is on display in an obscure Tokyo museum.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

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

This “peasant café” in the middle of Tokyo re-creates the atmosphere of the Japanese countryside.

The buildings are among the few Frank Lloyd Wright structures still standing in Japan.

Disaster prevention apartment blocks in Sumida Ward are designed to save as many as possible in the face of the inevitable.

Museum dedicated to the largest battleship ever built.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.

These seven moai figures are the world's only sanctioned replicas of the Easter Island originals.

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.