In Phetchaburi, Thailand, a roadside vendor cooks his fare with 1,000 mirrors and the power of the sun.

A three-table eatery sits inside the home-kitchen of a seafood virtuoso in Bangkok's Chinatown.

An on-site urban farm and fish pond supply some of the produce for this upscale restaurant.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

The only Edo-period ferry that is still in operation in Tokyo today.

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

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

Exploring crime and punishment in feudal and pre-modern Japan.

These unique toilets feature transparent glass covered in PDLC film.

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

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.