Places graknil Wants to Go

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

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

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

After a short 5 year run, this former major theme park sits in ruin.

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

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

Deep in a Polish forest, this collection of Iron Age megaliths still holds onto many of its ancient secrets.

The largest collection of model trains in the world is actually run using full-size locomotive technology.

A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

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

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

After mysteriously refusing to surrender at the end of World War II this sunken submarine was only salvaged in a search for Nazi gold.

Discovered after draining a local pond, these ancient man-made caves are still a complete mystery.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

An eccentric collection of antique items shares space with a prop-quality witchcraft museum.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.