Places Chouxie Wants to Go

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

The middle finger of modernity.

Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.

This fishing contraption sits on top of a series of spindly wooden stilts.

This iconic sluice gate is a favorite haunt for joggers, fishing enthusiasts, and even ghost hunters.

This museum is dedicated to the cultural history of tobacco and salt, once monopolized in Japan.

Kawaii meets poisonous at this unique art gallery.

Weighing nearly seven tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

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

A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

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

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