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

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

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

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

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

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

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

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