Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

More than 2,000 species of tropical plants call this nature preserve and sanctuary home.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

An Old West film set seen in countless TV shows and movies is open for the public to explore.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

The beloved dining spot stands at the cross-section of Hollywood and the Old West.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.