A small alleyway lined with locally drawn scenes of nostalgic anime and cartoon characters.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

Cavemen, elephants, and eagles greet passengers driving through the town's main intersection.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

Vintage furniture and art share space with all manner of collectibles at this quirky shop in Bangkok.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

A true Valhalla for cactus and succulent lovers.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

A 1:20 scale piece of the Netherlands commissioned by a queen lets visitors take a stroll as giants.

A historic observatory now an astronomy museum beautifully situated at the moat of the Middle Age city centre.

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