Places moonlightpearls Wants to Go

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

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

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

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

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

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

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

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

After sitting unused for decades, this abandoned communist infrastructure became a wildlife utopia.

The kitsch mansion of the former Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu features a golden bathroom.

This metro station doubles as an unintentional paleontology museum.

An old spa town in the mountains of Romania where, according to legend, the great hero Hercules once bathed.

A spooky spot along the road where things mysteriously seem to move uphill by themselves.