Places MFB Wants to Go

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

This giant bronze Buddha, the third largest in Japan, is the last in an ill-fated series of statues.

The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

A Japanese shrine to dolls.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

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

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

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

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

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

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

The world’s first hotel to be run by robots.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.