Places mandasuma Wants to Go

These public toilets are a work of art.

Located off a bustling strip, a silent teahouse employs workers with hearing- or speech-related disabilities.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.

This former monastery in Vietnam now houses a chocolate shop and museum filled with centuries-old taxidermy specimens.

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.

A 17th-century Shinto shrine that is home to statues of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

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

There's nothing shrimpy about the world's largest artificial prawn.

This bar is filled with Star Wars merchandise from around the world, all of it unlicensed knockoffs.

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

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

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

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

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

Monument to the area's potato and lamb industries.

Along the Stuart Highway, two giant sculptures tower over the roadway.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.