Places Yakultcat Wants to Go

Order bagels and lox from an iconic Jewish delicatessen with nearly a century of history behind it.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

With a facade that measures just 107 centimeters, this five-story building is one of the skinniest in Europe.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

This studio was home to David Bowie's first single, even if it did turn away the Beatles.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

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

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

To gaze upon the visage of Sri Lanka's biggest Buddha, one must first pass through the Tunnel of Hell.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

Hundreds of mummies in a silent room, some with eerily pained expressions preserved on their faces.

Stretching almost 2,000 feet, this painting is one of the longest pieces of Buddhist artwork in the world.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.