A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

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

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

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

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

A hole-in-the-wall antiquities museum in one of Tokyo's most popular megamalls.

Cascading outward, this waterfall creates the appearance of a flowing veil.

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

Mysterious wreckage of a small plane has been lodged in this tree since at least 1971.

A former electric substation that was converted into a magnificent mansion.

A colorful hidden village of the fair folk.

A winding stairway to a secluded beach in a residential neighborhood.

A large spinning bath of liquid mercury, used to probe the early universe.

Two graffiti towers stand like ghosts of Vancouver's World War II-era defensive outpost.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.

This vast collection of smoking pipes from across the world spans centuries.

This massive mural by famed pop-artist Keith Haring was hidden for almost 30 years until its 2018 rediscovery.

Tucked in the back of a flower shop, its collection details the fascinating history of the Netherlands's iconic symbol.

Sail in for a ’dam good slice.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.