When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

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

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

Retribution for death of infamous mob boss Franie Yale was a case of mistaken identity.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.