These turtle-shaped concrete stepping stones provide a unique river crossing in central Kyoto.

Movie buffs will love this Taiwanese director’s ode to film history.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

Taiwan’s iconic dish is in peak form here.

Looking for a crappy restaurant? Pull up a porcelain bowl and enjoy your meal.

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

The origin of this bizarre, ghostly idol is a local mystery, even to the temple it calls home.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.

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

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Enormous array of antennae fill a desert valley.

The warmth and creative kitsch of a quilt engulf every patron who visits.

A quiet rock and botanical garden is the beautiful centerpiece of Fort Lewis College.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

The world's largest sticker ball weighs in at a mighty 231 pounds.