A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Huts like this were once a hub for the female divers who collected pearls and seafood off Japan's coasts.

At a Japanese train station, a goddess emerges from a dumpling.

This volcanic island in the Pacific just keeps growing and growing.

Japan's hottest hot spring has a memorable name.

A park built around the legend of a clam-loving giant who created a monumental midden.

A museum in Hokkaido is housed in a former high school. On its grounds a marker shares the awakening of a man who longs to be reunited with his soulmate in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

These seven moai figures are the world's only sanctioned replicas of the Easter Island originals.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

Ruins and statues dot the landscape of this tiny island rich with royal history.

Birthplace of the Tendai sect and home to the marathon monks.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.