Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

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

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.”

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

Enjoy coffee and cake while viewing antique medical equipment at this unique cafe.

One of the largest collections of traditional Māori artifacts in New Zealand.

Watch the seas clash at the place where according to Maori tradition, the spirits depart for their journey to the afterlife.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

This store offers tastes of Aboriginal Australia, with some contemporary and global twists.

One of the oldest theaters in Australia, it's also said to be haunted by a performer who died on stage.

A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.

A remarkable lifelong collection of antiques and art preserved in a historic Melbourne townhouse.

Occult books, tarot, oddities.

These mythological giants take time out of their busy day guarding a Victorian market to let you know what time it is.

This rickety old shed hides a trove of secondhand literary treasures.

One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.

A boardwalk winds through this sliver of coastal nature hidden within Sydney.

This secret Australian garden was built on love after a man planted a random bulb he found in the ocean.

A wonder of natural limestone formations etched by millions of years of natural interaction between rainfall and rock and air.

Visitors can swim with vicious predators in Crocosaurus Cove's plastic daredevil enclosure.

The largest collection of medicinal plants in Australia is also home to a witch who will show you how to use them.