Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.