Places scheung Wants to Go

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

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

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

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

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

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

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

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

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

A abandoned hostel which was once home to Brunei's brightest students and present-day politicians.

This statue was a gift to commemorate the Thai monarch's first visit to a foreign land.

A small section in the Bank of Korea Museum dedicated to the many varieties of the Joseon dynasty’s iconic coinage.

A symbol of hope, survival, and national character, especially after it rose phoenix like from the flames.