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

Once a year a small English town gets together to chase oranges down a steep hill in honor of a legendary accident.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

A bright and wacky exhibit answers every question you may have had about human excrement, flatulence, and more.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

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

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

Constructed thousands of years ago, these stone circles offer incredible insight into the lives of the people who built them.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

Though technically an illegal structure, this eclectic DIY apartment complex is beloved by its residents.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

A remote and slightly overgrown park filled with replicas of world landmarks.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

A network of sandy streets lined with verdant fukugi trees weaves throughout this tiny seaside town.