An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

Not one, but two of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpieces nestled on the same street.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

The final resting place of the man who played the Invisible Man.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

A throwback train ride transports passengers through one of the lesser-known national parks in the country.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.