Places n1ckkl Wants to Go

A surprisingly large and sturdy ruin on the outskirts of a remote village.

This 17th-century fort, built by the Dutch to control a piece of the international spice trade, is now a city park.

A hundred and twenty year old twelve story lighthouse located on a beautiful Indonesian island.

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

Nope, not the one in France. The only officially-recognized reproduction of Monet’s garden in Giverny is located in a remote corner of Japan.

Over 40 species of fern cover the canyon walls of this lush green bowl, cut off from the bustle of the world by a cave entrance.

Though technically an illegal structure, this eclectic DIY apartment complex is beloved by its residents.

A rare example of an ancient Japanese hill castle believed to be the fortress of a legendary demon.

This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.

A free museum of Toronto’s untold music history hidden inside a drugstore.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

This buzzy, award-winning building hovers 85 feet above the ground on a dozen colorful stilts.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

A gorgeous, nostalgic café housed in a lofty old warehouse, lit only by petroleum lamps.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

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

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

Sample specialties from Xinjiang at this Shinjuku neighborhood gem.

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

The buildings are among the few Frank Lloyd Wright structures still standing in Japan.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

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

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