The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A large spinning bath of liquid mercury, used to probe the early universe.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

Small museum dedicated to the founder of electromagnetic theory.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

This local art collective supports contemporary artists through a coveted residency program.

This beautiful, all-in-one museum, private residence, and bed and breakfast houses a rich collection of African art.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

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

A museum of space exploration in the UFO capital of Japan.

Pilots from around the world come to this park to fly gliders.

Nope, not the one in France. The only officially-recognized reproduction of Monet’s garden in Giverny is located in a remote corner of Japan.

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

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

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

A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

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

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.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.