Places RaianY Wants to Go

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”

The Japanese mayo factory famous for its cute mascot.

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

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

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

This sports stadium was made from 25,000 cypress trees and ranks among the world's largest wooden domes.

An exact replica of Bill Clinton's childhood home stands within a resort in Japan.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

Disaster prevention apartment blocks in Sumida Ward are designed to save as many as possible in the face of the inevitable.

Curious onlookers have suspected this strange structure is a secret government base.

The train engine is tucked under an apartment building on a quiet Tokyo street.

This beautiful defunct water tower adds a European flair to a traditional Japanese neighborhood.

A deserted island in southwest Japan that once sheltered persecuted Christians.

This whimsical garbage disposal facility receives around 12,000 accidental tourists each year.

Ever needed a chocolate-filled crepe in the wee hours of the morning?

An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.

An abandoned Art Deco hotel nestled on the side of a wooded mountain.