Places urathore12 Wants to Go

A year-long seasonal produce clock highlighting a variety of fruits and vegetables from across the Piedmont region.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Museum dedicated to the largest battleship ever built.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

The world's longest tunnel with an undersea section.

One of the tallest statues in the world, and the tallest statue of a goddess in Japan.

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

"Singing sands" and the world's largest hourglass reside near Japan's Kotogahama beach.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.

A dilapidated amusement park with a million-dollar view.

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

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

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

A network of sandy streets lined with verdant fukugi trees weaves throughout this tiny seaside town.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

One of the world's largest tanks mimics the experience of watching rare whale sharks, giant rays, and deep sea creatures from the ocean floor.

This high-design church is made up of two dizzying spirals meant to evoke the weaving together of marriage.