Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

A museum in a law office, filled with authentic and counterfeit goods.

A collection of venomous snakes and reptiles for the whole family to enjoy.

An on-site urban farm and fish pond supply some of the produce for this upscale restaurant.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

Birthplace of the Tendai sect and home to the marathon monks.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

This statue of Buddha has a distinctive hairstyle meant to represent an unfathomably long period of meditation.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

This kitsch-forward diner is dedicated to an almost-forgotten “one-cent” prototype of okonomiyaki.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

Visitors to this museum will discover that kaleidoscopes are much more than toys.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.