Places deriverative Wants to Go

A gorgeous, nostalgic café housed in a lofty old warehouse, lit only by petroleum lamps.

A historical western settlement that is known as one of the three most disappointing sights of Japan.

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

This ornate example of 19th-century Chinese architecture is one of only a handful of Confucius shrines in Japan.

A faithful reconstruction of what was once the only window into Japan.

A monument commemorating the execution of 26 canonized Christians from the 16th century.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Is this cat asleep or just pretending?

Stretching for 22 miles, the world's longest tree-lined avenue dates back to the early 17th-century.

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

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

Founded in 1880, this humble brewery still practices a disappearing technique of sake-making.

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

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

Once a major cursed object, this frog-shaped rock has become a source of good luck

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

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

According to local legend, anyone who falls on these temple steps will turn into a cat.

A raised Japanese building has preserved 8th-century artifacts for more than a millennium, earning this log cabin a reputation as the "world's oldest museum."

This snack factory boasts several tributes to its popular line of rice crackers, including a quasi-shrine.