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A 1950s Googie burger stand is now a Los Angeles landmark.

The Japanese mayo factory famous for its cute mascot.

Unlikely place for krautrock legends to hang out.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

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

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

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

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Located in a remote mountain valley in Yamagata Prefecture, these hot springs have attracted bathers for over 450 years.

The largest of its kind in Japan, this century-old wasabi farm is also known for its appearance in an Akira Kurosawa film.

Have a soak at this retro bathhouse, where you will find Japan's first electric bath, tiling from Spain, and wood carvings representing the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

A monk-run winery inside a Buddhist temple celebrates Japan's crown grape varietal.

The final resting place of a former Dodgers and Mets player can be found in central Brooklyn, in the first diocesan cemetery for Catholics in the borough.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

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

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

A massive wintry wall of snow up to 66 feet tall flanks a highway through Japan's mountains.