Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

Folk art crafted from discarded vegetable crates.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

"The Dance of Fools" is Japan's largest dance festival.

A bovine sumo match in which both bulls live to fight another day.

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

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000 year old wood at this peaceful site.

"Singing sands" and the world's largest hourglass reside near Japan's Kotogahama beach.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

Unlikely place for krautrock legends to hang out.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.