Places weatherboy Wants to Go

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

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

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

Kawaii meets poisonous at this unique art gallery.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

This whimsical garbage disposal facility receives around 12,000 accidental tourists each year.

A moss-covered statue of a Japanese Buddhist deity stands at a quiet temple in downtown Osaka.

This brothel-turned-restaurant features plenty of surprises and elaborate, extravagant architecture.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

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

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

This extensive collection of dead bugs may be the world's most idiosyncratic and personal insect museum.

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

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

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