What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

Iron Butterfly's personal collection of footwear.

Marikina's record-breaking loafers.

Just off the road outside Baguio, a gigantic lion's head carved into a mountain greets those driving by.

Nearly 100 concrete graves lie hidden just beyond the pristine waters along the coast.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

Emerging from the sidewalk, this sculpture of a whale commemorates the importance of baleen in traditional Japanese puppetry.

A sad reminder of the World War II bombing stands largely unnoticed on a street corner.

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

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

These unique toilets feature transparent glass covered in PDLC film.

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

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

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

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

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

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

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

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

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!

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