This quirky collection of furniture also happens to be a public art installation.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

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

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”

This museum celebrates the history of Japanese advertising, from feudal business tricks to modern T.V. commercials.

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

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.”

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

The site where the famous city gate once stood, now in the middle of a playground.

Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.

This stuffed pigeon of war had the very serious name "John Silver" until he lost a leg in battle.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

A swirling spectrum of stained glass dazzles visitors who enter this subway station.

The vaulted ceiling is home to a scurry of “squirrelgoyles.”

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

A community-run museum invites visitors to explore Jewish communities before and after the Holocaust.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

A swaggering, monumental souvenir of the most extravagant party Montreal’s ever thrown.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.