Places eharjes Wants to Go

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

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

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

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

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

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

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.