Places mariaricks98 Wants to Go

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

Historical Japanese-Dutch relations are honored with haunted rides and flower fields in this replica town.

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

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

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

One man's lifetime collection of tiny objects of wisdom gathered from around the world, on display for public enjoyment.

This odd museum/art gallery embraces the physiological, zoological, and ethnographic side of sex.

This former coal mine has been turned into a sprawling modern art complex.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.

The world’s largest magazine collection was born from a single shelf in a teen’s bedroom.

A full-scale sculpture of a mermaid and baby grand piano hidden underwater by David Copperfield.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.