Places Saint Roughneck Wants to Go

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

An old pay phone rewired to play local bird calls and songs at the press of a button.

A tribute to two brothers' artistic endeavors.

This Harriet Tubman mural went viral for kids interacting with it.

A forsaken beachfront condo abandoned after the Boxing Day Tsunami.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Cute manhole covers commemorate the hometown of the real-life Ash Ketchum who created Pokémon.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

Despite their macabre past, these hooks are said to bring good luck to those who touch them.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Walls of VHS tapes adorn this Golden Gai B horror movie themed bar.

Dedicated to the victims of a phantom slasher, this memorial is claimed by some to be the source of a deadly curse.

Thousands of foxes are said to gather and parade across the neighborhood of Ōji on New Year’s Eve.

An adorable intake tower with a “witch hat” stands in the Edo River.

This shrine, built to protect against destructive waves, is home to two monumental lion heads.

Guarding the city of Chiyoda is a bizarre insectile creature with a name no one can pronounce.

Composed of scrap metal, a pair of platform-length murals chronicle Japan’s history, from the Big Bang to the development of modern Tokyo.

Rice balls symbolize fate and relationship at this adorable shrine, which was once dedicated to the Buddhist Devil.

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

This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.

One of the few surviving World War II-era air-raid shelters in Tokyo.

A few hidden stones are said to bring fortune and love.