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

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.