Places grogpappy Wants to Go

With a surface area of nearly 500 square meters, welcome to the world's largest paraboloidal dish solar concentrator.

Its most grisly object is a jar full of severed fingers allegedly cut off by prisoners to avoid work.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

A series of sculptures beneath the waves promote ocean conservation and support coral reefs.

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

The Victoria-era quarantine station for Sydney.

Over two million dolls have been healed during this hospital's century in business.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

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

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

These unique toilets feature transparent glass covered in PDLC film.

Perhaps the world's cheapest vending machines.

A strip of traditional hand towel serves as an admission ticket at this modern tenugui museum.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

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

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”

This battleship of a building was designed by a famed "mad architect."

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

Unchanged for decades, World War II-era bullet holes and nostalgic ghost signs still haunt this desolate train station.

Installed in 1965, this whimsical slide has spawned a brood of “octopus mountains” across Japan.