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

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

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

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

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.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.