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

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

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

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

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

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.

This Chinese-style quartz sundial was saved in its final hour.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.