Places donnatalarico Wants to Go

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

One of the few surviving World War II-era air-raid shelters in Tokyo.

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

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

Weighing nearly seven tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

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

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

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

A collection of the specialized tools used to construct Japan’s beautiful architecture.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

In the mid-20th century, a tamale-slinging juke joint attracted a diverse clientele in the Mississippi Delta.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.