Places collincousineau Wants to Go

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

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

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

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

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

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

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

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

The oldest house in Chicago certainly doesn't look the part and there are some who say it doesn't deserve its title either.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.