Places grogpappy Wants to Go

Kawaii meets poisonous at this unique art gallery.

Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.

The Japanese mayo factory famous for its cute mascot.

Though the case is scorched and the buttons half-melted, this hardy handheld gaming device can still run a game of Tetris.

Would you spend the night in Japan's deepest train station?

This arch celebrates the romantic memories of those who danced at the Cloudland Ballroom.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

The smallest country in Australia is a principled little thing with a friendly emperor.

Asbestos pit mine abandoned in 1983 is still dangerous thirty years later.

A castle hand-built by a Spanish dreamer in the Australian tropical jungle.

It's said to be one of the most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art in the world.

"The Wonder From Down Under," a worm shaped museum celebrating the endangered Giant Gippsland earthworm.

The abandoned remains of a once popular zoo, and the grave of the last known Tasmanian Tiger.

A huge maze complex and whimsical miniature village in Tasmania.

Carved panels tell the complete history of the harsh Central Highlands region.

A beautiful, but toxic, lake formed by mining.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

The world's tallest shot tower—maybe.

For a century, the tallest building in Tasmania was a tower built to manufacture ammunition.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

Standing in celebration of where the cattle dog was bred.

The yawning remains of a complex naval fortress still haunt this Australian shore.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

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