Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

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

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

Once frequented by heavyweights of the Russian arts scene, this café is stuck in the 1800s.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

An overlooked collection of over 350,000 artistic works created by psychiatric patients using art therapy.

This Brazilian astronomy museum allows guests to gaze at the stars through their telescopes each weekend.

One of only two civilian settlements in the desolate lands of chilly Antarctica.

An active seahorse farm is currently saving Tasmania's handfish from extinction.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

This remote research station sits amid the second-largest ice sheet on the planet.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

A monument to the defenders of the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.