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

This kitsch-forward diner is dedicated to an almost-forgotten “one-cent” prototype of okonomiyaki.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

A unique set of caves that spits waves back out into the ocean.

During the solar phenomenon "Lahaina Noon" this bendy, curvy sculpture forms a perfectly circular shadow on the ground.

Hiding in plane sight.

The grand marquee of this abandoned Hawaiian theater remembers the building's elegant past.

Once the site of the Hawaiian monarchy, this building was originally designed as a palace.

An ode to one of the first concerts broadcast via satellite.

A 1940's shrine dedicated to drowned fishermen on the outskirts of Honolulu.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

A unique collection of Western and Japanese-style graves.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

A curious collection of locks and keys.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.