Places hapichapi Wants to Go

A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

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

A wonderfully eccentric Victorian-era museum and library.

In this Red Rock forest, a small enclave plays host to a collection of wacky figurines.

A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.

A medieval church built into an ancient cave.

This tiny weathered plot is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Scotland.