The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

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

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

The Decoy Capital of the World.