Places jimmyjazz Wants to Go

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

See every month of the year personified at this opulent Turinese fountain.

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

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

This unassuming brick building contains the last purpose-built drill hall in the United Kingdom.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

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

One in a pair of subterranean caves created by an ancient eruption of Mount Fuji.

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

A mysterious suspended hand greets unsuspecting visitors at the Tower of London.

This camera store in Milan holds one of Europe’s largest collections of luxury-antique cameras.

The only remaining wind-powered paper mill in the world.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

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

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

Once the park closes at sunset, the greatest haiku poet of all time moves to face the Sumida River.

This public bathroom takes the form of a 19th-century lighthouse that once stood on the spot.

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.

This kitsch-forward diner is dedicated to an almost-forgotten “one-cent” prototype of okonomiyaki.