This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

This retro underwater observation tower would make the perfect lair for a sea-loving villain.

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

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

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

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

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

The top of society once luxuriated in this world-class hotel, which continues to impress, even in ruin.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

During the solar phenomenon "Lahaina Noon" this bendy, curvy sculpture forms a perfectly circular shadow on the ground.

The grand marquee of this abandoned Hawaiian theater remembers the building's elegant past.

This WWII plane died a quiet death, and is now a garden eel playground.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

A neo-Gothic temple in central Mexico featuring a labyrinthine network of crypts.