Places sharminpaynter Wants to Go

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

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

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

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

Underground farm located in a former bank vault deep within the bowels of Tokyo's business district.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

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