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The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

New York's oldest magic store.

The northernmost of the 12 surviving feudal castles of Japan is known as a cherry blossom viewing spot.

According to one legend, this bridge was crafted after monkeys formed a body-bridge across the gorge.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

The only museum dedicated to the American street artist is in rural Japan.

This airy five-floor library and museum houses thousands of books and rotating exhibits on Japanese monsters and anime.

Founded in 1880, this humble brewery still practices a disappearing technique of sake-making.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

There's light and a dreamlike panorama at the end of this tunnel.

A collection of nostalgic items from the Showa era with an exhibit on the local ghost story of the Snow Woman.

Hundreds of statues of Buddha’s disciples meditating, napping, sneezing, and picking their noses.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

This small Japanese street is lined with figures, sculptures and a shrine dedicated to frogs.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.