Places silvousfay Wants to Go

A bizarre, tuberculosis sanatorium-themed café moonlighting as an underground art gallery.

A 20,000-year-old fossilized forest is preserved at this unique museum.

This unique museum explores the world of Japanese demons and spirits.

High in the trees or suspended between cables, these surreal structures are the works of a unique Japanese architect.

The first Venetian glass exhibit in Japan and one of the largest in the world.

A lone torii arch stands on a coastal rock where a deity is said to have landed.

Home to herbal cosmetics, teas, and a unique set of dolls known as kitchen witches.

View Japan's most historic city from a cyberpunk walkway suspended 150 feet above the ground.

Running through lush forests and across the Tadami River, this train line offers breathtaking views of rural Japan.

Along the side of the road on a small Japanese island is an extensive garden of uniquely designed Shisa statues.

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

Hanging over one of Japan’s “hidden valleys,” these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

Home to around 40 different species, this forest was also the setting for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."

This once-booming oil city is now a relic of the region's industrial past.

A fascinating example of the Danxia landform is characterized by its striking red sandstone formations.

A massive ancient Chinese city with stone walls and evidence of human sacrifices.

A hidden Buddhist gem accessible only by boat.

A lake that borders Kazakhstan and Russia allegedly harbors the giant "Terror Trout" or "Chinese Nessie."

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Explore this massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.