Places sprinklekatamari Wants to Go

Kawaii meets poisonous at this unique art gallery.

Weighing nearly seven tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

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

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Blowtorches, tuna, and a jolly, chain-smoking proprietor mark this beloved street-food stand.

This brothel-turned-restaurant features plenty of surprises and elaborate, extravagant architecture.

This kitsch-forward diner is dedicated to an almost-forgotten “one-cent” prototype of okonomiyaki.

Visitors to this museum will discover that kaleidoscopes are much more than toys.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

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

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

The 19th-century home of Count and Countess von Hallwyl is now a museum.

An abstract representation of weather in Sweden.

A concrete mushroom that divided Stockholm residents for nearly a century.