Places Emily Kemp Wants to Go

This charming, hidden guild museum holds some 700 years of crossbow history.

Head underground and take a tour of the city's working sewer system, and see the underground river Senne, which defined Brussels for centuries before being covered in the 19th century.

The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

Nature is slowly overtaking this disused cemetery on the outskirts of Brussels.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

One of the deepest indoor swimming pools in the world.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

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

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

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

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

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

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

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

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