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For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

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

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

An oversized metal construction of Billy Tripp's moods going through life.

This holy goods emporium is where priests go for a little retail therapy to outfit their churches.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

A 30-foot man on a penny-farthing bicycle rides along the banks of the Mississippi.

A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.