This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

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

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

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

Once the main gateway to Tokyo, sneaking through this checkpoint was a capital offense in feudal times.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.