Places PobbleFrog Wants to Go

An island off the coast of South Australia is home to the last purebred Ligurian bees.

A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.

A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.

This store offers tastes of Aboriginal Australia, with some contemporary and global twists.

Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.

This stone tower was built in the late 19th century to signal the time to ships in the water.

The sullen remains of vessels abandoned in the Port Adelaide River.

38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

A rock with images of infernal judges sculpted on it, offering a panoramic view of Kamakura.

An unassuming set of tiles next to a mailbox mark the former location of one of the most famous springs in the city.

The preserved ruins of the Hōjō clan’s palatial estate, hidden in the basement of a tourist information center.

Nestled among the bamboos in a temple complex, this art installation serves as a unique memorial to insects.

Outside of where Tsukiji Market once stood, these memorials honor the spirits of the fallen fish, shrimp, and eggs used for nigiri.

One of the best-preserved remains of "Tokyo's lost rivers."

This public bathroom takes the form of a 19th-century lighthouse that once stood on the spot.

The only natural gorge in metropolitan Tokyo, with lots of greenery and ancient burial chambers.

Only recently added to the shrine, this googly-eyed snail demon of unknown origin is said to have eye-healing powers.

Every summer, the Mendenhall River greenbelt comes alive with an explosion of magenta flowers.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

More than 300 years old, Kyoto's historic "teahouse" still operates as an invitation-only geisha club.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

Stone mined from this quarry was used in many prominent structures around Melbourne.