Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

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

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

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

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.