Places Carolyn ANZ Wants to Go

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

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

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

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

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

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

This lavish room in a New York City mansion is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.