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

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

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

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

A remarkable lifelong collection of antiques and art preserved in a historic Melbourne townhouse.

In a strange timezone anomaly, Daylight Saving Time here sets the clocks forward just 30 minutes.

This secret Australian garden was built on love after a man planted a random bulb he found in the ocean.

This odd 1930s shop remains stranded in time and shrouded in mystery.

These Australian rock formations look like Martian beehives that have grown up out of the landscape.