Places onieshal Wants to Go

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

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

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

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

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

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

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.