Places jameth15 Wants to Go

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

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

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

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

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

The large fjord lake is thought to be the home of "Ogopogo," a giant sea serpent.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

Colorful umbrella-covered trees in Singapore's Little India look straight out of Dr. Seuss.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.