Looking for a crappy restaurant? Pull up a porcelain bowl and enjoy your meal.

Buddhist university that allows English-language speakers the opportunity to study with monks in Thailand.

Abandoned mini-mansions that were once intended for affluent Bangkok families now sit empty.

Its tremendous toad is actually a five-story museum and viewing platform.

This small interfaith chapel lies not far from the rim of the Grand Canyon.

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”

A derelict New Zealand-themed amusement park in Japan.

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

A unique Shinto shrine filled with bunnies and wordplay.

The remains of the vast manor that once belonged to Lord Kira, villain in the 47 Ronin story, is now a shrine dedicated to the incident.

Access to this hidden site of a 14th-century mass suicide is prohibited, unless it is to pray for the dead.

A Buddhist temple on an artificial island that houses a monument to the fugu fish.

The site of Japan’s first archaeological excavation is also the birthplace of fingerprint forensics.

A museum in Hokkaido is housed in a former high school. On its grounds a marker shares the awakening of a man who longs to be reunited with his soulmate in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

Japan's longest-running music festival takes place on an isolated butterfly-shaped island.

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.

This sacred cave temple is home to thousands of bats and according to legend, a giant snake king.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.