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

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

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

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

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

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

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

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

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

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

The world’s largest knitted mitten is displayed in one of Sweden’s smallest Arctic villages.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

A tiny, remote island packed with wonders both natural and geeky.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.