Places kattrewerts Wants to Go

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

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

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

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

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

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.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

Climbing Iceland's highest peak on the rim of the Oræfajökull volcano.

The oldest hall in Iceland was written of in the Sagas and features a centuries-old escape tunnel.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.

An Icelandic island full of diving birds and legend.

The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.