Places vawl Wants to Go

Every spring, this walkway outside the Japan Mint turns into a cherry blossom tunnel.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

Home to the world's oldest wooden building.

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.

Surreal giant face-pillars welcome visitors from across the globe to this hotel.

This bathhouse includes an option to soak in radioactive water.

A half-century-old handmade dim sum joint opens daily at 3:00 a.m.

China's biggest e-waste village.

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

Beneath the city of Lourdes, France is a massive, concrete church.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

This huge abandoned fortress hidden inside a mountain holds a world of subterranean secrets.

A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

Sanctuary on a ridge near an ancient shrine to a "Black Madonna" built by the founder of Opus Dei.

An arresting arch punched straight through a mountain provides one of the most scenic spots, and challenging climbs, on the planet.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

Abandoned 18th century weapons factory in the Aezkoa Valley.

This Navarrese cave's history of witchcraft and pagan ritual is not just embraced, but recreated each year.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.