Places Umeko Wants to Go

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

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

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

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

Self-mummified monk who wears sunglasses and has become a gecko hatchery.

Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.

A gruesome memorial for those lost in this area during the Khmer Rouge genocide.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Rare and wonderfully wormy cadaver art captured in brass for centuries.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.