Places Kan Cho Wants to Go

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

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

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

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

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

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

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

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

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

This tiny museum immortalizes the birthplace of an iconic Chinese-Korean noodle dish.

Throughout this South Korean village, homes and businesses are covered in fantastic handpainted murals.

This hillside village by the sea has been revitalized by street art.

A pair of oily black spiders lurk inside South Korea's largest airport.

A monument to the two U.S. officers killed by North Korean troops while trying to trim a poplar tree.

The best place for scenic views of the DMZ and North Korea.

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

The 400-year-old remains of the samurai invasion of Korea.

A rocky Irish outcropping with a history of wealth, conflict, and ruin.

A remarkably intact castle that once was the largest in Ireland.