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.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

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

Kawaii meets poisonous at this unique art gallery.

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

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

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

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

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

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

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

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

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

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

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

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

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The farthest northwesterly point of the British mainland is one of the most remote places in the Scottish Highlands.

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past

This ruined travelers shelter sits abandoned in a desolate bog of Flow Country.

Unusually, this ancient Iron Age broch has never been excavated.