Places Taki Wants to Go

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

These unconventional "tub boats" let locals row around the island's turbulent coast.

Japan's longest-running music festival takes place on an isolated butterfly-shaped island.

A bovine sumo match in which both bulls live to fight another day.

A deserted island in southwest Japan that once sheltered persecuted Christians.

The world's largest radiation field is probably our best bet for irradiated vegetable superheroes.

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.

Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.