Places christiesmiles Wants to Go

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

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

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Remnants of an old bank adorn this station's brick wall.

A hole-in-the-wall antiquities museum in one of Tokyo's most popular megamalls.

The largest of its kind in Japan, this century-old wasabi farm is also known for its appearance in an Akira Kurosawa film.

This extremely naked God of Drunkards welcomes visitors to Kochi Station.

Composed of scrap metal, a pair of platform-length murals chronicle Japan’s history, from the Big Bang to the development of modern Tokyo.

The site of Japan's first major environmental disaster.

The "largest bathroom stall in the world" offers a unique pit-stop experience.

These sculptures were created by a 17th-century artist who had never seen an elephant.

This brothel-turned-restaurant features plenty of surprises and elaborate, extravagant architecture.

A kitsch shrine dedicated to the ogre-slaying folktale hero born from a peach.

This western-themed amusement park is host to a large number of decaying animatronic cowboys.

This ancient burial cave along a roadside is also home to several Buddhist sculptures.

More than 300 years old, Kyoto's historic "teahouse" still operates as an invitation-only geisha club.

For centuries, this gold mine was the powerhouse behind the Tokugawa Shogunate.

A train station decorated by a giant replica of the ancient Shakōki-dogū figurine found in the area.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

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