If you forgot something to read during your trip to Tokyo, this hostel has you covered.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Antique cinematography artifacts fill this museum dedicated to the inventors of the moving picture.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.