Places viv157 Wants to Go

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

A strip of traditional hand towel serves as an admission ticket at this modern tenugui museum.

This kitsch-forward diner is dedicated to an almost-forgotten “one-cent” prototype of okonomiyaki.

Visitors to this museum will discover that kaleidoscopes are much more than toys.

Have a soak at this retro bathhouse, where you will find Japan's first electric bath, tiling from Spain, and wood carvings representing the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

Buried nine feet under, these houses are preserved as a stark reminder of the disastrous 1991 Unzen eruption.

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

This ornate example of 19th-century Chinese architecture is one of only a handful of Confucius shrines in Japan.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

Palace, temple, and pyramid ruins mark the ancient Mesoamerican capital of Totonacapan.

Nature puts on a spectacular show at this blowhole on the eastern side of Gran Canaria.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

In the 19th century, this canal provided power to mills, machine shops, and other businesses in the area.

This archaeological site features an early version of today’s refrigerators.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

Try maple leaf tempura at the trailside shop that brought it back from oblivion.

A 20,000-year-old fossilized forest is preserved at this unique museum.

This futuristic-looking museum was built for the centennial of Japan's most innovative toilet.

The centuries-old cobblestones of a feudal highway remain in the woods of Hakone.

An eerie cluster of medieval cave-like tombs carved out of a cliff, hidden in a historic mountain pass.

This sports stadium was made from 25,000 cypress trees and ranks among the world's largest wooden domes.