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

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Discover the mummified remains of Ancient Egypt in the middle of metropolitan Tokyo.

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

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

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

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

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

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

The largest cave shaft in the world is home to thousands of birds and popular with BASE jumpers.

The former home of surrealist Edward James, who gave Xilitla its main attraction.

This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

One Pittsburgh musician's decades-in-the-making memorabilia collection is on display at this rock-n-roll curio shop.

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.