What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

The birthplace of Japanese coinage.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

A whimsical museum dedicated to the mischievous kappa, a mythical cucumber-loving water sprite.

This whimsical garbage disposal facility receives around 12,000 accidental tourists each year.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

Ruins and statues dot the landscape of this tiny island rich with royal history.

An abandoned Art Deco hotel nestled on the side of a wooded mountain.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.

Once a year, ambitious surfers can ride the world's largest river.

This small Brazilian museum honors the work of a German biologist who studied the jungles for decades.

In the Manduri reserve of Sao Paulo, you can see the endangered black-horned capuchin monkey up close.

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

Trash-filled shrines to an unofficial saint known for her endless breast milk dot the highways of Argentina.

One family's mission to exemplify sustainability took on a whole new life as a surprisingly beautiful home.