A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

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

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

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.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

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

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.