On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

Hanging over one of Japan's "hidden valleys," these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

The most confusing clock in New York.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.