Places trelawneyskye Wants to Go

The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.

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

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

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

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

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

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

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

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

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

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

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

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.