Places tbgtigger Wants to Go

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

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

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

Though technically an illegal structure, this eclectic DIY apartment complex is beloved by its residents.

"Singing sands" and the world's largest hourglass reside near Japan's Kotogahama beach.

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

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

This high-design church is made up of two dizzying spirals meant to evoke the weaving together of marriage.

An anthropological theme park that depicts the cultures of around 20 different countries.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

A statue erected on an infamous cliff where young boys would hold dangerous "pee offs" to prove their mettle.

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

A sculpture that resurrected the only tree standing following the devastating 2011 tsunami.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

A massive wintry wall of snow up to 66 feet tall flanks a highway through Japan's mountains.

Founded over a thousand years ago, this shrine is said to be built on the site of a warlord's harem prison.

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

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