Birthplace of the Tendai sect and home to the marathon monks.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

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

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.