Places lostinhistory Wants to Go

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

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

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

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

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

The historic Newfoundland outpost where the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable made landfall.

The towering ruins of a mill that never produced a single sheet of paper.

Massive gannet colony perched on cliffs, with hiking trails and an interpretation center.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

This 400-year-old tree is actually an immigrant from North America.

French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier transformed the site of a 19th-century massacre into a haunting memorial.