Places savij Wants to Go

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.

A collection of more than 1,000 teddies from nearly any profession.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000-year-old wood at this peaceful site.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

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

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

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

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

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

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

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.