Places irishdudesc Wants to Go

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

A hidden gallery exhibits intricate, decades-old Buddhist reliefs.

This museum showcases the art of ancient sword-making.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

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

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

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