This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

Smallest house in Toronto sits on a lot meant to be just wide enough for cars to drive through.

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

Lost subway station nestled beneath Toronto's busy commuter line.

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

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

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

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

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

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

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.