Places Plerpo Wants to Go

This compact temple is filled with garlands of colorful balls that represent restrained monkeys.

Legend has it that centuries ago, a ghost once frequented this candy shop to feed her still-living baby.

It is believed that this Buddhist temple stands right on the gateway to the underworld.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

The groundbreaking Japanese shrine maiden who invented the art of kabuki.

This kitsch-forward diner is dedicated to an almost-forgotten “one-cent” prototype of okonomiyaki.

A small shrine dedicated to a tanuki statue, tucked away in a Blade Runner-esque izakaya alley

A 1000-year-old shrine in Kyoto with a poorly planned sacred arch.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

A swan-like monument on Obad's Hill honors those that defended the area from German invaders during WWII.

A deserted site of Yugoslav remembrance.

Water gushes from the trunk of this miraculous mulberry tree about once a year.

An exquisite monument dedicated to fallen Partisan soldiers and anti-fascist fighters of Yugoslavia through symbols of gears and flowers.

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

A full figure 4th century incorruptible saint lies in a glass coffin in Croatia.

A unique interactive experience of everyday life in communist Yugoslavia—a very different time in Croatian history.

Some of the best-preserved specimens of the monumental medieval tombstones found throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Not your average Bosnian cafe — this locale is dedicated to the former Yugoslav dictator Tito.

A two-storey cabinet of wonders filled with the bizarre, the macabre, and the downright uncanny.

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.