Places Kan Cho Wants to Go

An exhibit tracing Japan's cinematic history in an often-overlooked national museum.

The buildings are among the few Frank Lloyd Wright structures still standing in Japan.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

View the ancient remains of buildings and the ancient "River of Hades" before hopping on a train.

There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.

Also known as Uncle Karl, the beloved bronze copper keeps a watchful eye on St. Stephen’s Basilica while people rub his lucky belly.

Barbies stare from the walls, sit on the tables, and even pop out of cakes at this quirky cafe.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

A charming, homemade vending machine dispenses burgers and sandwiches at this hole-in-the-wall bakery.

These medieval wooden bridge pillars appeared out of nowhere in the aftermath of a huge earthquake.

A memorial to the Indian victims of the devastating 1923 earthquake, built in glorious Mughal style.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

These statues are dedicated to the damned souls of those executed centuries ago on the beautiful Yuigahama beach.

Three rare “road guardian” stelae with reliefs of the Tengu can be found in the town of Naruse.