Places jennybento Wants to Go

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.

An LED art installation composed of 600 poles wrapped in kimono fabric.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

This collection of reclaimed landmines acts as both an exhibition of their deadly history and as a shelter for children affected by them.

An abandoned Cambodian resort that mirrored the downfall of the country as it was happening.

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

A gruesome memorial for those lost in this area during the Khmer Rouge genocide.

One of the biggest markets in Asia, under one of the continent's largest domes.

More than 100 Hindu temples are slowly being swallowed by the forest.

Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

A former French military respite turned jungle tourism hotspot.

This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.

A monument to the Turkish librarian who delivered books on the back of a donkey.

Clark County Museum has created an entire street of historically important buildings relocated from various other locations within the county.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

A taxidermy “mermaid,” vampire-killing kits, and hundreds of other bizarre objects are housed at this quirky museum.

Fall through a crack in the seams of reality at this immersive art installation.

Since 1985, this Victorian home has operated as a museum filled top to bottom with American-made glassware.

Just off I-55 in McLean, Illinois, is a place where you can play over 100 arcade and pinball machines for 25-75 cents a pop.

This Idaho state park boasts the tallest single-structured sand dune in North America.