Places hm13 Wants to Go

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

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

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

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

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

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

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

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

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

For more than half a century, an enormous feline has watched over this London neighborhood.

This pub has roots dating back to 1430 and serves as the setting for multiple Charles Dickens stories.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

The final resting place of England's most notorious bandit.