Places eosstar Wants to Go

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

Japan's hottest hot spring has a memorable name.

Legend says the goddess this shrine honors curses any couples that pass by.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

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

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

Thanks to this small string of islands World War II still hasn't officially ended between Russia and Japan.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

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

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.