Booksellers and public artworks fill this vibrant promenade along the disused railroad tracks.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Southeast Asia is a monument to a disappearing community.

Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.

The remains of the vast manor that once belonged to Lord Kira, villain in the 47 Ronin story, is now a shrine dedicated to the incident.

A shrine dedicated to a 10th-century samurai emperor, whose head is not buried on site (contrary to popular belief).

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

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

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

This museum showcases the art of ancient sword-making.

These unique toilets feature transparent glass covered in PDLC film.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

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

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

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

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

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

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

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

These rat eating Giant Malaysian Pitcher Plants may have evolved to eat shrew poop.

Four distinctly unique gardens commemorate the POWs who lost their lives during the Sandakan Death Marches of 1945.

In this Borneo cave, it's not the thousands of bats you need to worry about, it's the blankets of roaches.

Malaysia's floating mosque.