Places CaveVex Wants to Go

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

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

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

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

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

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

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

This gigantic 18th-century gateway in Lucknow was built to provide relief and employment to the people during a famine

The author of Animal Farm and 1984 was born to a civil servant in British India.

Home of coppersmiths whose families have been working here since the 17th century.

A collection of items seized by the Indian Customs have been kept for display at the Old Customs House in Panaji.

This is the world's only floating national park, and the last natural home of the majestic sangai deer.

This 18th century Marathi fort is adorned with a spiked front gate meant to repel enemy elephants.

A former prison within a seaside fort has now been turned into an interactive museum.

Outside a hilltop monastery in India, a monument to a 20th-century Russian mystic.

Dedicated to the life of a brave woman soldier.