Places Laflaneure Wants to Go

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

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

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

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

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

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

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

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

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

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

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.