Places carmelaland Wants to Go

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

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

This ordinary set of steps is a must-see destination for fans of a certain romantic anime.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

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

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

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

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

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

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

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.