Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

Years of neglect and nature took a toll on this 19th-century lighthouse.

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

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

This incredibly diverse research station is one of the largest tropical botanical gardens in the world.

A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

The world's largest bust sculpture celebrates the Hindu deity, Shiva.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

The lavish, well-preserved home of a wealthy Baba Nyonya family is now a cultural museum.

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

A spiritual sanctuary in a natural cave.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

New Jersey's last historic covered bridge was rebuilt from pieces of the original 19th-century structure.