Places Rogier Wants to Go

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

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

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

The giant Siberian crater known locally as the "doorway to the underworld" is expanding every year.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Visit this odd display of indigenous style in Argentine wine country.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Things seem to roll, flow and run uphill on this short patch of road near Ariccia, Italy.

When you get to Magnetic Hill park near the sign, put your vehicle in neutral gear, and watch it roll uphill...

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Its town washed away centuries ago, this lonely tower by the sea tells the tale of a mermaid and a curse.