This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

In Costa Rica's cloud forest, the roots of a woody ficus create a botanical bridge.

One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

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

Nope, not the one in France. The only officially-recognized reproduction of Monet’s garden in Giverny is located in a remote corner of Japan.

These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.

Approximately 300 million years ago, a massive coral reef existed in what is now the largest limestone cave in Japan.

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.

A mysterious set of tunnels carved in the hills of rural northern Kyushu.

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000 year old wood at this peaceful site.

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.