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

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

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

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

These little castles each held thousands of pigeons.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

The bat-covered home of one of the world's most popular brands of rum is located on a tropical Art Deco campus.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

Antiques by the Bay.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.