Places timcrobin Wants to Go

Inspired by the famous sculptures on Easter Island, this head serves as a popular meeting spot by Shibuya Station.

Disaster prevention apartment blocks in Sumida Ward are designed to save as many as possible in the face of the inevitable.

The train engine is tucked under an apartment building on a quiet Tokyo street.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

The buildings are among the few Frank Lloyd Wright structures still standing in Japan.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

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

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

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

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.

The first modernist church in Europe.

An ornate private entrance to the Vienna subway built specifically for the emperor.