Places stereorobo Wants to Go

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

This incredible mountainside temple is home to intriguing statues of demon-like creatures.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

This natural rock formation features seemingly unnatural vertical ridges that have been blamed on elves.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.