Places stevendicosta Wants to Go

Though it won't take you far, the wood train housed at this station is the last of its kind in Japan.

The largest of its kind in Japan, this century-old wasabi farm is also known for its appearance in an Akira Kurosawa film.

At a Japanese train station, a goddess emerges from a dumpling.

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

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

New York's oldest magic store.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

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

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

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.