Places jensredmer Wants to Go

Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.

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

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

A massive wintry wall of snow up to 66 feet tall flanks a highway through Japan's mountains.

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

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

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

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

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

The saddest little diner in New York.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.