This museum showcases the art of ancient sword-making.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

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

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.