This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

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

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

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

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

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.