Places zaphyr8 Wants to Go

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

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

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

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

An open-air museum exhibiting a total of 52 century-old buildings, recreating Hokkaido’s “pioneer village.”

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

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

The former home of queer novelist Yoshiya Nobuko memorializes her contributions to modern-day manga.

Just outside Tokyo, a 45-story-high observatory with a stunning view of Tokyo Skytree and Mount Fuji.

A mountaintop Buddhist temple with panoramic views of Hiroshima.

The former site of Fukuoka’s legendary ramen joint works hard to guide customers to the “original” original.

This is no ordinary coffee chain outlet—it's an architectural masterpiece.

Many Hindus make the long pilgrimage to this holy city to have their remains burned on the banks of the Ganges River.

Known as the leaning temple, the sacred structure has somehow developed a severe nine-degree slant.

Miraculous vase predicts the future at this Tibetan Buddhist site in the Himalayas.

At this unique temple in Darjeeling, Hindu and Buddhist practices co-exist harmoniously.