The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Half of a house.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

This Metabolist, retro-futuristic residential complex resembles a cyberpunk space colony established on Earth.

The only Edo-period ferry that is still in operation in Tokyo today.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

This abandoned, spaceship-like building is home to a museum so unpopular that it has been put on hiatus for over two decades.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

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

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

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

Since Tokyo's Kiyosu Bridge was inspired by a historic bridge that crossed over the Rhine, this viewing spot is known as a "view of Cologne."

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

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.