Places roach808 Wants to Go

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

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

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

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

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A spoke-tacular artwork constructed from recycled bicycle rims.

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

These particularly resplendent rodents are the state animal of Maharashtra.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

The remains of Alfred Nobel's first nitroglycerine factory can still be found on the shores of a Swedish bay.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

A hidden bathhouse in one of Stockholm's oldest and busiest neighborhoods is open to anyone who can find it.

This Stockholm light tower can be controlled by anyone with a smartphone.