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

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

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

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

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

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

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

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

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

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

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Biblical beasts and endangered animal preservation come together in this Israeli zoo.

The tallest waterfall in the Judean Desert is named for its connection to a biblical figure.

An ancient quarry rediscovered by a dog and claimed by biblical kings, a German cult, and the Freemasons.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

This full-sized orange tree lives suspended in mid-air above the streets of Jaffa.

A modern-day cabinet of curiosities housed in a 300-year-old inn.

An ancient underground cultic temple where sunlight penetrates on the summer solstice.

Hidden beneath a washing machine in a fake kibbutz, this secret bullet factory has been preserved as a museum.

You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.