Places Egao Wants to Go

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

This 700-year-old structure is one of the most unique architectural and historic monuments in Gdańsk.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

This wooden recreation of a 9th century lake village looks as though it was built yesterday (which it relatively was).

Devilish masks, handicrafts, and pieces of old buildings create a snapshot of life in a historic Alpine region.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

Part ski resort, part modern art space, this lodge brings giant metal spiders and bloody doors to the Austrian Alps.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

The man who created the first Japanese-English Dictionary.

An ancient Greek physician is honored as a god at this hole-in-the-wall shrine.

The world's narrowest strait is often mistaken for a canal.

This statue of Buddha has a distinctive hairstyle meant to represent an unfathomably long period of meditation.

This monumental intersection commemorates the day Okinawa switched to driving on the left.

This statue of the "shiny uncle of Beppu" was erected in 2007.

At the "fishing boat shrine," an offering is said to help ward off fevers.

In a rural Japanese town that has committed to sustainable practices, even the hotel is made from recycled materials.

At the time of its construction, this type of door was nearly unheard of.