Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

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

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

“The oddest pub in South Africa,” inspired by a practical joke.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?