Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

A series of smile-themed sculptures created by artists from all over the world fill this Tokyo shopping district.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

This atmospheric pre-war building is home to one of the few manually operated elevators left in Tokyo.

A lonely chimpanzee lures you into a narrow alley leading to this hidden shrine.

Peer into this window for an interesting glimpse into the public utilities that make this city run.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

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

Air-raid tunnels hidden beneath this opulent hotel provided shelter and an escape route—and one of the world's longest slides.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.