Places positivelypossessed Wants to Go

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

A mysterious inscription may hold a clue about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

The world's largest radiation field is probably our best bet for irradiated vegetable superheroes.

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

This mountain's identity is stuck somewhere between a nightmare and a scenic tourist attraction.

After a short 5 year run, this former major theme park sits in ruin.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

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

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

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

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.