A dazzling display of lights and crystals.

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

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

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

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

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

Rare videos and memorabilia await visitors inside this unique store.

Inside this old train depot resides a multi-line model train covering western North Carolina.

A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.

Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.

A giant cat slowly prowls the parking lot of Zebulon's car dealerships.

The only pachinko parlor in the United States.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.