Places Ysabet Wants to Go

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

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

A collection of nearly 5,000 yokai-themed toys, sculptures, and more, dating from the 1700s to the present day.

A mysterious sculpture is hidden in Vancouver's Stanley Park.

It is said that coins washed in the waters here will miraculously multiply.

A network of ancient tunnels and vaulted chambers with mystical Buddhist reliefs, built for ascetic training.

A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.

Considered an enigma by folklorists, an object of primitive animistic worship lives on in Yamanashi.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

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

Plagued with warts? Leave a frog at this small shrine in the city of Tosa, and you may be cured.

Come for the fish sundae, stay for the collection of Studio Ghibli cat buses.

Though technically an illegal structure, this eclectic DIY apartment complex is beloved by its residents.

At the "fishing boat shrine," an offering is said to help ward off fevers.

This extremely naked God of Drunkards welcomes visitors to Kochi Station.

Though it won't take you far, the wood train housed at this station is the last of its kind in Japan.

A massive stone fox oversees a Rotterdam elementary school crosswalk.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

A serene mountaintop temple complex featuring one big, bronze Buddha.

Cave where bat-eating snakes hang down from the ceiling.

A rocky shelter in the desert hides one of the largest concentrations of cave paintings in Mexico.

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

This oasis-like spring in the Sonoran Desert is home to unique, endangered species.

Is this cat asleep or just pretending?