A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

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

Museum showcases Japanese sexuality and some amazing ocean views.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

Detroit housing collective working to create an "environment for revolutionary change."

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.