Places Shin Kiryu Wants to Go

A trek through the solar system here on earth.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

Sitting right on the border between East and West Jerusalem this modern art museum is in itself a symbol of Israel's hoped-for unity.

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.