A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

Historical Japanese-Dutch relations are honored with haunted rides and flower fields in this replica town.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.

A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.

New York's oldest magic store.