Places thedeparture Wants to Go

This former prison now houses a lovely library devoted to Quebec's oft-maligned English-speaking history.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

A community-run museum invites visitors to explore Jewish communities before and after the Holocaust.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Ruins and statues dot the landscape of this tiny island rich with royal history.

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

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

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

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.