Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

Ever needed a chocolate-filled crepe in the wee hours of the morning?

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

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

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

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

The world’s first hotel to be run by robots.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

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

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.