A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

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

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

This secluded walking trail is a hidden gem of a Pittsburgh park.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.