Places klauskiendlhofer Wants to Go

A single block in this stone staircase to the temple is mysteriously always wet.

A glimpse into life in 1830s Tokyo, back during the heyday of the Tokugawa shogunate.

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

This atmospheric pre-war building is home to one of the few manually operated elevators left in Tokyo.

One of the best-preserved remains of "Tokyo's lost rivers."

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

This unassuming office building is home to what was once the world's largest pendulum clock.

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

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

A rooftop restaurant hides in plain sight atop Vienna's Palace of Justice.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

In DeWitt, New York, a blanket-wrapped gas station makes a creative statement on global dependence on oil.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

A small museum houses a long, rich history of life and death on Lake Erie — from famous shipwrecks to rum smugglers.