Tateyama-machi, Japan
Snow Canyon
A massive wintry wall of snow up to 66 feet tall flanks a highway through Japan's mountains.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Tateyama-machi, Japan
A massive wintry wall of snow up to 66 feet tall flanks a highway through Japan's mountains.
Tokyo, Japan
This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.
Ōmihachiman-shi, Japan
A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.
Kyoto, Japan
Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.
Narusawa-mura, Japan
A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest."
Kyoto, Japan
1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.
Tokyo, Japan
A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.
Miyoshi, Japan
Hanging over one of Japan’s “hidden valleys,” these vine bridges must be remade every three years.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Ishinomaki, Japan
On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.
Manchester, New Hampshire
One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
The world's longest known cave system.
London, England
An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.
Iceland
Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.
Iceland
The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.