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

Believed to hold the remains of Japan's most infamous fox spirit, this stone is said to kill those who dare approach.

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

A remote coral island with a gristly history of shipwreck, battles, and a horrendous war crime.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

This gnome sculpture and his wonderous hat forces train passengers to do a double-take.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

This ancient burial site was once thought to be the home of a race distinctive to Ainu folklore.

Chiseled out of a sandstone cliff, one farmer's unfinished art project lies in ruins.

These sculptures were created by a 17th-century artist who had never seen an elephant.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

The birthplace of Japanese coinage.

A monk-run winery inside a Buddhist temple celebrates Japan's crown grape varietal.