Places vveracarvalhocosta Wants to Go

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

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

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

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

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Hanging over one of Japan’s “hidden valleys,” these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

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

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

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

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

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

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.