Places Scott Klinger Wants to Go

Discover the mummified remains of Ancient Egypt in the middle of metropolitan Tokyo.

The world's largest permanent architectural projection display entertains audiences nightly with 28-story light shows.

Only recently added to the shrine, this googly-eyed snail demon of unknown origin is said to have eye-healing powers.

Exploring crime and punishment in feudal and pre-modern Japan.

This museum is dedicated to the cultural history of tobacco and salt, once monopolized in Japan.

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

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

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

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

The final resting place for an internet icon.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.