Places drgbarrios Wants to Go

This lesser-visited gallery in a corner of the Tokyo National Museum complex is an architectural beauty dedicated to the ancient treasures of Hōryū-ji.

A miniature shrine in the busy corner of Tokyo's historic Broadway, honoring a sextet of unusual entertainment gods.

A Buddhist temple on an artificial island that houses a monument to the fugu fish.

This infamous execution site inspired the beginning of Japan's modernization in the late 18th-century.

Walls of VHS tapes adorn this Golden Gai B horror movie themed bar.

Mythical beasts symbolizing the city of Tokyo guard a historic bridge.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

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.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

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

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.