Places Added by Fred Cherrygarden

A rare tobacconist Napoleon statue stands inside York’s medieval guildhall.

The ruins of the oldest artificial island in Japan, still used for mooring today at 800 years old.

Founded in 1961, this comic shop is said to be the oldest in the world.

A well-known Japanese musician’s all-night concert on this island is immortalized by an unusual work of art.

A pair of gargoyles peer into unsuspecting passengers at Denver’s conspiracy-packed airport.

The oldest iron bridge in Japan is preserved and unassumingly placed over a pedestrian path.

According to local legend, elderly villagers were once brought to this hill and left to die.

According to the local First Nations folklore, this rock was once a man.

Japan’s only surviving winding tower.

A cluster of cylindrical apartment buildings nod to the city’s vegital past.

The last family-owned, single-screen moviehouse in La La Land.

The remains of the Minatogawa Man found here are among the oldest known skeleton specimens from Japan.

These 33 Zen Buddhist temples were built to protect the nearby castle.

A grand Buddhist temple with Indian influences.

Iconic Japanese movies were made at this forgotten film-studio-site-turned-mall.

A 360-year-old cherry tree grows out of a granite boulder.

According to Japanese mythology, the first rice paddy in history was created here many aeons ago.

A bizarre philosophy-themed park founded by an occult expert.

Dedicated to the history and culture of Japanese fishcake, this museum invites you to take part in its kamaboko-making workshop.

In the hometown of Eiji Tsuburaya, a street lined with intergalactic heroes and monsters.

After an Englishmen was killed by a samurai here in 1862, a two-day war changed the course of Japanese history.

Thousands of foxes are said to gather and parade across the neighborhood of Ōji on New Year’s Eve.

Though not uncommon in western Japan, this Buddha cut out of an ancient sarcophagus is the only example in central Tokyo.

Dedicated to the victims of a phantom slasher, this memorial is claimed by some to be the source of a deadly curse.