Places Team Awesome Wants to Go

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

The first location of the eventual video game giant.

At over 500 years old, this is the oldest surviving toilet in Japan

This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A remote hilltop covered in giant monoliths haunts the Brittany countryside.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

Pigduck of Turku.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

This free museum is building a collection of books that are banned, censored or burnt around the world.

Sculpture of a legendary French dragon.

A dramatic sculpture high up in Yorkshire with vistas on an industrial scale.

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.

Scores of wax baby figurines add an unusual mood to this beautiful church on the Greek coast.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

In 1977, an eccentric book lover formed a micronation for book lovers.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Since 1999, this bakery has been turning out the dreamiest tortes in the Slovenian capital.

Chronicling the history of Thailand’s unique currencies, from the silver “bullet money” to porcelain gambling tokens of various shapes.

A rare double-receiver payphone housed in a fake tree.

Located in a heritage building, this Mickey D's is missing its Golden Arches.

You can only see this Baroque masterpiece during the month of November.