Places Team Awesome Wants to Go

The only museum dedicated entirely to the dry stone walling technique.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

One of the great treasures of Neolithic art lies within this carefully constructed pile of rocks.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

This train station has no entrances or exits for pedestrians, and exists only to take advantage of the area’s view.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

You can receive a blessing for your electronics at this Shinto shrine near Akihabara.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

View Japan's most historic city from a cyberpunk walkway suspended 150 feet above the ground.

This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

Enjoy a flaming concoction steeped in steampunk, magic, and alchemy at this experimental cocktail bar.

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

A small shrine dedicated to a tanuki statue, tucked away in a Blade Runner-esque izakaya alley

Royal milk tea was invented here at the Far Eastern capital of Sir Thomas Lipton’s tea empire

A strip of traditional hand towel serves as an admission ticket at this modern tenugui museum.

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

According to local legend, anyone who falls on these temple steps will turn into a cat.

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

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

A mountaintop Buddhist temple with panoramic views of Hiroshima.

In 806, Kobo Daishi began meditating on Mount Misen. The Buddhist monk lit this holy fire, which has been kept burning for 1,200 years.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.