Places Tipa Wants to Go

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

The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.

Located in an old church, this brewery produces a different kind of holy water.

For one day every month Barcelona's Estació de França transforms into a market for model trains.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

Dedicated to the unsung history of human waste.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

30 years worth of pressed-tin, bakalite, and characters both loved and forgotten.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

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

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

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

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

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

Home to the world's oldest wooden building.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.