Tokyo, Japan
Akihabara Electric Town
Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.
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Tokyo, Japan
Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.
Tokyo, Japan
Exploring crime and punishment in feudal and pre-modern Japan.
Tokyo, Japan
Guarding the city of Chiyoda is a bizarre insectile creature with a name no one can pronounce.
Tokyo, Japan
A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.
Tokyo, Japan
An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.
Tokyo, Japan
Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.
Tokyo, Japan
Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.
Tokyo, Japan
Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.
Tokyo, Japan
Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.
Rome, Italy
Italian horror legend Dario Argento’s own shop hides a sinister museum-dungeon in the basement.
Los Angeles, California
Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.
New York, New York
A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."
New York, New York
An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.
Los Angeles, California
Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.
Beverly Hills, California
Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.
Los Angeles, California
What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection.
Los Angeles, California
This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.
Beverly Hills, California
Hidden away among the quiet streets of Beverly Hills, this small park is a haven for walkers and wildlife.
Beverly Hills, California
One of the richest places in the United States has a cursed street.
Pasadena, California
Inspiring Earthlings to Boldly Go.
New York, New York
Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.
New York, New York
This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.
New York, New York
Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.