Places catbacon Wants to Go

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.

South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen.

Celebrating the history of Hangul, the Korean writing system invented by King Sejong to improve his realm’s literacy.

A unique structure located on the grounds of one of five grand palaces that were built by the Joseon dynasty.

A remnant of Korea's colonial past lies forgotten in a hip neighborhood in Seoul.

Buy your fish and have it cooked to order in this bustling, eight-floor seafood market.

Over 80,000 carved wood blocks make up one of the world's oldest intact Buddhist canons.

Thanks to wordplay, the earthquake-causing catfish monster has become a god of confidence at this shrine.

At the "fishing boat shrine," an offering is said to help ward off fevers.

A gorgeous, nostalgic café housed in a lofty old warehouse, lit only by petroleum lamps.

This is no ordinary coffee chain outlet—it's an architectural masterpiece.

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

This bathhouse includes an option to soak in radioactive water.

At the time of its construction, this type of door was nearly unheard of.

Looking for the train station? Try the building shaped like a train.

These turtle-shaped concrete stepping stones provide a unique river crossing in central Kyoto.

A painting marks the site of a historic skyscraper destroyed by the Great Kantō earthquake.

A unique art exhibit home to letters addressed to those unable to receive them.

A lesser-known sister to Paris's world-famous museum, located within a Buddhist sculpture paradise.

Tatar Russian in origin, the largest mosque in Japan is now an Ottoman-style Turkish culture center.

This quirky collection of furniture also happens to be a public art installation.

Surreal giant face-pillars welcome visitors from across the globe to this hotel.

Nestled amid the trees lies an abandoned funicular railway that dates back to the 1920s.