Places eelhovercraft Wants to Go

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

Inspired by the famous sculptures on Easter Island, this head serves as a popular meeting spot by Shibuya Station.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

An abandoned, rusty old relic of railroad history stands at attention over the Cuyahoga River.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.

See the rare bloom of the "Queen of the Night" cactus at one of the world's largest succulent collections.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.