Cold storage for agricultural biodiversity.

In this town's main square resides a statue of none other than the 43rd President of the United States.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

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

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

This bar is filled with Star Wars merchandise from around the world, all of it unlicensed knockoffs.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

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

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

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

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

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

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

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