Places ImAllgemeinen Wants to Go

Nine healing baths available only to those who stay in this quaint town, said to have inspired 'Spirited Away.'

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

This retro izakaya street is a unique legacy of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

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

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

The home and studio of one of Japan's most avant-garde artists is now a museum showcasing his surreal works.

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

This still-celebrated home was a radical architectural experiment in 3D De Stijl.

Underground attraction offering tours of the foundational ruins of a church nave that collapsed in 1674.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

View Japan's most historic city from a cyberpunk walkway suspended 150 feet above the ground.

Visitors to this museum will discover that kaleidoscopes are much more than toys.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

This brothel-turned-restaurant features plenty of surprises and elaborate, extravagant architecture.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

One of three official copies of Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic masterpiece is on display in an obscure Tokyo museum.

A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

A unique shrine dedicated to the deified skull of a 17th-century Tokyo courtesan.

This abandoned, spaceship-like building is home to a museum so unpopular that it has been put on hiatus for over two decades.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.