A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

Run a wash cycle while sipping a latte at this community-oriented café.

A small shrine dedicated to a god of lightning and electronics.

In a rural Japanese town that has committed to sustainable practices, even the hotel is made from recycled materials.

These tiny pine-covered islands have inspired art and poetry for centuries.

Nestled amid the trees lies an abandoned funicular railway that dates back to the 1920s.

It is said that coins washed in the waters here will miraculously multiply.

Japan's longest-running music festival takes place on an isolated butterfly-shaped island.

A few hidden stones are said to bring fortune and love.

Huts like this were once a hub for the female divers who collected pearls and seafood off Japan's coasts.

These unconventional "tub boats" let locals row around the island's turbulent coast.

Although it has never been a secret ninja base, this shrine still has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.

These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

A quaint amusement park now sits, rusting and forgotten among the foliage.