Places rmazor Wants to Go

This amazing abuela became a diehard metal fan late in life and an icon of Madrid's '80s rock scene.

This dragon narrowly escaped demolition.

A must for film lovers in Madrid and home to the Spanish Film Library's projection space.

Meant to resemble a massive tree, the building is the best example of Spanish organicist architecture in Madrid.

Strange masks and obscure costumes are housed in this old Madrid corrala.

This piece of early engineering is rather unknown despite its location in the heart of Madrid.

A reproduction of the famous prehistoric cave paintings is hidden underground at the National Archaeological Museum.

Automatons that were once removed after one fell from the building.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

Rumored to be a giant robot in disguise, this colossal chef has been the beloved symbol of Tokyo’s kitchenware district for decades.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

The only Kurdish restaurant in Japan invites you to learn and feast.

When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

Emerging from the sidewalk, this sculpture of a whale commemorates the importance of baleen in traditional Japanese puppetry.

Mythical beasts symbolizing the city of Tokyo guard a historic bridge.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

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

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

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

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

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.