Places postscript Wants to Go

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

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

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

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.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

This magical space partly designed by Antoni Gaudi is one of the best examples of romantic gardening in the Mediterranean.

Haunting monument to the German Jewish philosopher who died while fleeing fascism.

This whimsical winery by Antoni Gaudí looks ripped from the pages of a fairytale.

A gravity-defying "devil's bridge" that has a surprising architectural feature for its stability.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.