Tokyo, Japan
Kawaii Monster Cafe
A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.
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Tokyo, Japan
A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.
Tokyo, Japan
Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.
Tokyo, Japan
The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.
Isahaya, Japan
This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.
Hiroshima, Japan
A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.
Hatsukaichi, Japan
This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Hiroshima, Japan
Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.
Nara, Japan
Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.
Kyoto, Japan
Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.
Kyoto, Japan
Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.
Hanoi, Vietnam
Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.
Ecuador
This small uninhabited island offers Galapagos-like biodiversity.
Mexico City, Mexico
The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.
Mexico City, Mexico
Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.
Mexico City, Mexico
Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.
Mexico City, Mexico
An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.
Zipaquira, Colombia
Cathedral carved out of salt, located a mile below the Earth's surface.
Los Angeles, California
An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.
Los Angeles, California
After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.
Paju, South Korea
Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.
Seoul, South Korea
Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.
Seoul, South Korea
A bright and wacky exhibit answers every question you may have had about human excrement, flatulence, and more.
Beijing, China
The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.