Places shurayukihime Wants to Go

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

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

This bar is filled with Star Wars merchandise from around the world, all of it unlicensed knockoffs.

A moss-covered statue of a Japanese Buddhist deity stands at a quiet temple in downtown Osaka.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000-year-old wood at this peaceful site.

Old neon signs from the City of Brotherly Love provide a snapshot of the city’s evolution.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Enjoy a slice while browsing the world's largest collection of pizza memorabilia.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

A tiny graveyard with a mysterious past.

Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.