Places tobbinator Wants to Go

Modern-day cave dwellers carve elaborate homes out of volcanic debris.

Hydraulic systems in an ancient underground Iranian city.

This beautiful system of tunnels built into natural rock serves as a centuries old plumbing system.

A 1,500-year-old, 3-story subterranean city where ancient Persians took refuge in times of war.

The traditional houses along the coast of this charming Japanese fishing village allow people to sleep above the sea.

Turn around and stick your head between your legs for the best view of this tree-covered sandbar.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

The world's largest radiation field is probably our best bet for irradiated vegetable superheroes.

Constructed thousands of years ago, these stone circles offer incredible insight into the lives of the people who built them.

Museum dedicated to the largest battleship ever built.

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."

A thick blanket of beautiful pampas grass cloaks this unique Japanese landscape.

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

The largest collection of model trains in the world is actually run using full-size locomotive technology.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

This giant bronze Buddha, the third largest in Japan, is the last in an ill-fated series of statues.

Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.

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

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.