Places Clur Wants to Go

One of three official copies of Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic masterpiece is on display in an obscure Tokyo museum.

Inspired by the famous sculptures on Easter Island, this head serves as a popular meeting spot by Shibuya Station.

If you forgot something to read during your trip to Tokyo, this hostel has you covered.

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

This futuristic public park includes large sculptures and an artificial geyser.

This amusement park brings a little slice of England to the heart of Kyushu.

Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.

This whimsical garbage disposal facility receives around 12,000 accidental tourists each year.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

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

One of the bloodiest and most important battles in Japanese history is recreated with kitschy concrete statues.

A statue of a mischievous raccoon towers over this city park.

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

This bar is filled with Star Wars merchandise from around the world, all of it unlicensed knockoffs.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.

This ancient shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years since the eighth century.

A remote and slightly overgrown park filled with replicas of world landmarks.

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.