Places tristanpollock Wants to Go

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

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

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

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

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

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

Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.

Someone left a Boeing 737 in a field in southern Bali.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

Exotic, erotic, and esoteric, one artist's live-in Bali gallery brings a splash of color and madness to its surroundings.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

A haunting theme park is slowly being swallowed by the jungle.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

“The oddest pub in South Africa,” inspired by a practical joke.

An odd little fishing town that is inundated by tourists looking to be locked up in a cage and surrounded by great white sharks, because why not?

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

The original goat tower, the one that started it all.

An abandoned water park overtaken by the dunes.

This sacred, circular cave is lined with pools so clear and still that it's hard to tell where the water begins.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.