Places weatherboy Wants to Go

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

This seven story Japanese love hotel now stands in ruins.

The largest collection of model trains in the world is actually run using full-size locomotive technology.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

This mountain's identity is stuck somewhere between a nightmare and a scenic tourist attraction.

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.