Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

A museum in Hokkaido is housed in a former high school. On its grounds a marker shares the awakening of a man who longs to be reunited with his soulmate in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

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

A bovine sumo match in which both bulls live to fight another day.

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

A collection of more than 1,000 teddies from nearly any profession.

Constructed thousands of years ago, these stone circles offer incredible insight into the lives of the people who built them.

The world's largest radiation field is probably our best bet for irradiated vegetable superheroes.

One of the bloodiest and most important battles in Japanese history is recreated with kitschy concrete statues.

A statue of a mischievous raccoon towers over this city park.

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

Museum dedicated to the largest battleship ever built.

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

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

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

An anthropological theme park that depicts the cultures of around 20 different countries.

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

"The Dance of Fools" is Japan's largest dance festival.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.