Tokyo, Japan
The Giant Ghibli Clock
Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.
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Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.
Tokyo, Japan
Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."
Kyoto, Japan
This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.
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.
Tokyo, Japan
The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.
Hakone, Japan
This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.
Yoro, Japan
Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.
Nara, Japan
This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Nara, Japan
The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.
Mitaka, Japan
A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.
Altadena, California
"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.
Reykjavik, Iceland
An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.
San Francisco, California
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
Atlanta, Georgia
Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.
Seoul, South Korea
South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.
Kawasaki, Japan
This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.
Tokyo, Japan
A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.
Tokyo, Japan
A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.
Tokyo, Japan
Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.
Breede River DC, South Africa
“The oddest pub in South Africa,” inspired by a practical joke.
St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.