Places hotpants038 Wants to Go

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

An exact replica of Bill Clinton's childhood home stands within a resort in Japan.

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

A charming, homemade vending machine dispenses burgers and sandwiches at this hole-in-the-wall bakery.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

The only museum dedicated to the American street artist is in rural Japan.

This prehistoric site is home to the largest shell midden cluster in Japan.

This bakery in Japan is one of the few places that still sells 'salad bread,' a short-lived staple in the post-World War II years.

A dramatic landscape of ancient lava, carved into hexagonal columns by nature itself.

A rare north-facing Ksitigarbha statue enshrined in a passageway off Osaka’s busiest area.

Off the beaten path along the coastline of Miura, a scenic cliff with an evocative name.

A mysterious, perhaps haunted plot of land, untouched by modern development.

Thousands of foxes are said to gather and parade across the neighborhood of Ōji on New Year’s Eve.

A fantastical glow-in-the-dark mural inspired by the city’s most famous writer, Kenji Miyazawa.