Places rybarrios81 Wants to Go

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

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

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000-year-old wood at this peaceful site.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

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

The Buddhist temples of Yamadera, built into a mountain side, feature a viewing deck with sweeping views.

A sculpture that resurrected the only tree standing following the devastating 2011 tsunami.

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

A desert in southeast Asia, complete with a beautiful lake covered in lotus flowers.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

These crumbling towers are some of the last remnants of a centuries-old Vietnamese culture.

The site of good faith and good nature in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

Hidden in a Scotland museum is a copse of extinct tree stumps.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

Macbeth's infamous "Great Birnam Wood."