Places emmjay35 Wants to Go

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

Kawaii meets poisonous at this unique art gallery.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

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

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

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

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

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

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

In 1986, Keith Haring was arrested for painting this anti-drug mural on a Harlem handball court.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."