A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Make your own fake treats at this factory and workshop in the epicenter of Japan's food replica industry.

A drowned river valley that was important to the Maori and European settlers.

This quiet island in the middle of a bustling city is actually a volcano dotted with Māori ruins.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

Taiwan's last Chinese character letterpress preserves the dying art of Chinese character mold making.

A hidden gem of a museum that lets you search for your own fossils.

Come for the bait, stay for the brioche.

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

Three rooms of bones, curios, and one artist's collection of natural artifacts create this intriguing museum.

A steampunk airship "floats" above Hamilton Gardens delivering plants and compost.

A New Zealand rubbish dump named after British comedian John Cleese.

Hundreds of toothbrushes hang from a wire fence along a quiet New Zealand road.

One of the world's largest pianos is displayed in the workshop of the man who built it as a teenager.

New Zealand's west coast is one of the best places in the world to view these large seabirds.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.