Places maldorora Wants to Go

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

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

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

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

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.

The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.

The legend says that this English rock formation was once a hunter who was turned to stone by annoyed witches.

Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.

Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The longest hedge maze in the world.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.

This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.