Places hansol0 Wants to Go

Visit the real-life site of the fictional pizzeria in Bong Joon-Ho's film Parasite.

Buy your fish and have it cooked to order in this bustling, eight-floor seafood market.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

A free museum of Toronto’s untold music history hidden inside a drugstore.

Smallest house in Toronto sits on a lot meant to be just wide enough for cars to drive through.

A unique collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and everything in-between.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

This Art Nouveau mansion was used as the "House of the Screaming Child" in Dario Argento’s giallo classic.

This building has a giant piercing through one of its corners.

Visit the cherry blossoms at Tokyo’s unofficial smallest mountain.

Outside of where Tsukiji Market once stood, these memorials honor the spirits of the fallen fish, shrimp, and eggs used for nigiri.

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

This 400-year-old noodle joint was once frequented by a fox-turned-monk, according to local folklore.

This retro café is a remnant of Japan’s post-war Argentine tango craze.

Walls of VHS tapes adorn this Golden Gai B horror movie themed bar.

This museum is dedicated to the cultural history of tobacco and salt, once monopolized in Japan.

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

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

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.