Places NJ220 Wants to Go

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.

A mysterious set of tunnels carved in the hills of rural northern Kyushu.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

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

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

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

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

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

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

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

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

These naturally occurring but rare geological formations are each about the size of a small house.