Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

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

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.

The clever workshop that has been designing some of the most unusual coffins imaginable.

The first mosque in Ghana is known as the "Mecca of West Africa."

At Ghana's largest wildlife refuge you feel like you're right in the animals' backyard.

The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.

Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."

This series of rope-style bridges brings visitors into a jungle layer that is usually reserved for birds and monkeys.

A small but charming botanical garden that contains many exotic plant species.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.