Places pikapika Wants to Go

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Get your cosplay on at Milwaukie’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

This weekly bazaar started in the 1960s as a way for hippie travelers to barter their goods.

One of the biggest markets in Asia, under one of the continent's largest domes.

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

South Korea's only sex-themed park.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

Unique collection containing a wide and curious range of contraceptive items.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

Mine your own precious stones.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.