Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

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

Japan's iconic sci-fi hero rendered to 8-bit by notorious French street artist Invader.

This gnome sculpture and his wonderous hat forces train passengers to do a double-take.

This museum is dedicated to the cultural history of tobacco and salt, once monopolized in Japan.

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

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

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

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

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