Places hayleyknoph Wants to Go

Eat a meal surrounded by bomb fragments.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

A boulder carved into the shape of the cosmonaut's head.

Nicknamed Kazakhstan's Grand Canyon, this natural wonder lies east of Almaty near the Chinese border.

Avenue of trees planted by cosmonauts before their space departures.

Mysterious spherical rocks in the semi-desert of western Kazakhstan.

Iconic pyramid from famed British architect Norman Foster designed to represent all of the world's religious faiths.

The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

Ruins and statues dot the landscape of this tiny island rich with royal history.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.

These seven moai figures are the world's only sanctioned replicas of the Easter Island originals.

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

A remote and slightly overgrown park filled with replicas of world landmarks.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.