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

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

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

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

This small uninhabited island offers Galapagos-like biodiversity.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses separated by a bridge.

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Cathedral carved out of salt, located a mile below the earth's surface.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

A bright and wacky exhibit answers every question you may have had about human excrement, flatulence, and more.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.