Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

A small strip of artistic displays is tucked away in a flea market.

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

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

A shrine dedicated to the sacred white snakes of Iwakuni, whose albinism has been passed down for generations.

Plagued with warts? Leave a frog at this small shrine in the city of Tosa, and you may be cured.

What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.

The site where the famous city gate once stood, now in the middle of a playground.

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

A park built around the legend of a clam-loving giant who created a monumental midden.

This snack factory boasts several tributes to its popular line of rice crackers, including a quasi-shrine.

Mythical beasts symbolizing the city of Tokyo guard a historic bridge.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

This monument gives insight into how lost children were found in Edo-period Tokyo.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

If you forgot something to read during your trip to Tokyo, this hostel has you covered.

Is this cat asleep or just pretending?

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.