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.
Kyoto, Japan
A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.
Hatsukaichi, Japan
This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.
Kyoto, Japan
The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.
Nara, Japan
This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.
Narusawa-mura, Japan
A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest."
Miyoshi, Japan
Hanging over one of Japan’s “hidden valleys,” these vine bridges must be remade every three years.
Kyoto, Japan
The 10,000 Torii shrine.
Fujinomiya-shi, Japan
A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.
Kyoto, Japan
The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.
Dublin, Ireland
Dublin's most modern, visually spectacular bridge is modeled after Ireland's national emblem.
Dublin, Ireland
This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.
Ireland
Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.
Inisheer, Ireland
A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.
Clare, Ireland
This controversial Irish show cave is home to a massive formation known as the Great Stalactite.
Dowth, Ireland
The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.
Kerry, Ireland
Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.
Dublin, Ireland
The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.
Corofin, Ireland
A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Duluth, Minnesota
This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.
Bellevue, Alberta
A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
The intense competition of the 19th-century fur trading industry played out at this fort in Western Canada.