Places DaisyL Wants to Go

A tiny kissaten coffeeshop with expertly crafted coffee in an antique setting.

A painting marks the site of a historic skyscraper destroyed by the Great Kantō earthquake.

The decommissioned steam engine’s whistle can still be heard three times a day at one of Japan’s oldest train stations.

This park boasts a unusual collection of curious monuments from around the world, from Micronesia to Antarctica.

The only natural gorge in metropolitan Tokyo, with lots of greenery and ancient burial chambers.

The train engine is tucked under an apartment building on a quiet Tokyo street.

A sad reminder of the World War II bombing stands largely unnoticed on a street corner.

When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan.

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

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

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

Follow the steps, and this roadside artwork will teach you how to dance.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Known as the "Valley of the Moon," this Jordanian wadi is one of the most amazing desertscapes on Earth.