Places dianesaurus Wants to Go

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

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

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

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

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

A statue erected on an infamous cliff where young boys would hold dangerous "pee offs" to prove their mettle.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

A Japanese shrine to dolls.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.