Places tiernoodle Wants to Go

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

Every Sunday, this Thai temple in Berkeley serves a backyard brunch.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

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

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

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

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

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

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

One of three official copies of Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic masterpiece is on display in an obscure Tokyo museum.

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

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

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

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...