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

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

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

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

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

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

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.