Places pauljuser Wants to Go

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

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

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

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

This railroad overpass is said to be home to a murderous goat-man whose very legend has led to very real deaths.

The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

This 15-foot former Johnny Appleseed has given up his apples for donuts and coffee.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.