Places kermath Wants to Go

This mechanical clock performs "Romeo and Juliet" in a Shakespeare-themed New Zealand town.

This remote highway took over 50 years to build.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Walls of VHS tapes adorn this Golden Gai B horror movie themed bar.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

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

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

The U.S. military dumped millions dollars worth of goods off a beach in Vanuatu, purely to spite the British and French.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

A quaint amusement park now sits, rusting and forgotten among the foliage.

Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

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

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

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

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

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

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

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

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

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