Places RecklessThor Wants to Go

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A little-known cafe in an old copper bridge tower with 360-degree views of the harbor.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

A historic Masonic building overlooking the Puget Sound.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.