Places animebirder Wants to Go

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

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

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.

At a Japanese train station, a goddess emerges from a dumpling.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.