The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

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

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

A Buddhist temple on an artificial island that houses a monument to the fugu fish.

This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.

Mythical beasts symbolizing the city of Tokyo guard a historic bridge.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

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

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

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.