Places tracer1 Wants to Go

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Try maple leaf tempura at the trailside shop that brought it back from oblivion.

Blowtorches, tuna, and a jolly, chain-smoking proprietor mark this beloved street-food stand.

A labor of love by laborers in the sign-making business.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

The home of the founder of American landscape architecture puts his principles into practice.

Perhaps the world's cheapest vending machines.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

A hole-in-the-wall antiquities museum in one of Tokyo's most popular megamalls.

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

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

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

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

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Daikon radishes are offered to the Japanese Buddhist counterpart of the Hindu god Ganesha at this historic hilltop temple.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

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

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

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.”