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

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

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

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

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

These ruins on Mont Tantané dates back to the Iron Age, but there is limited evidence for why a village was built so far from water or other resources.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

One of the deepest indoor swimming pools in the world.

Nature is slowly overtaking this disused cemetery on the outskirts of Brussels.

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

This Late Gothic building that once housed Erasmus is now known as the filming location of "Suspiria."

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.