This incredible mountainside temple is home to intriguing statues of demon-like creatures.

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

If you forgot something to read during your trip to Tokyo, this hostel has you covered.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

This ordinary set of steps is a must-see destination for fans of a certain romantic anime.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

After the oysters have been shucked, and the restaurant's been shuttered, the terrazzo sidewalk from the 1940s is all that remains.

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

This chicken coop pays homage to a classic architectural style made famous throughout the southern United States.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.