Places snailhugs Wants to Go

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.

The Buddhist temples of Yamadera, built into a mountain side, feature a viewing deck with sweeping views.

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

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

Where Stoddart and Connolly suffered in the infamous Bug Pit.

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

An abandoned water park overtaken by the dunes.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.