Places Eleanor Walker Wants to Go

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

Passengers are not allowed to set foot outside this station, but you can still enjoy spectacular views of the sea from the platform.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

The Guinness Record holder for largest hedge in the world is a verdant Scottish bulwark.

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

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

This fantastical and eclectic English garden takes its inspiration from Egypt, China, the occult and more.

The iconic castle that withstood a magnitude 6.2 earthquake has become a symbol of resilience.

The gutted remains of this Estonian mansion are a monument to a tragic love.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.

A Viking-style brewpub named for a Norse sea giant, in the heart of fjord country.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.