A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

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

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

This massive airship factory is so large that it has its own indoor weather.

The tragic reality of a town riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.