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Surreal giant face-pillars welcome visitors from across the globe to this hotel.

This brothel-turned-restaurant features plenty of surprises and elaborate, extravagant architecture.

Blowtorches, tuna, and a jolly, chain-smoking proprietor mark this beloved street-food stand.

Perhaps the world's cheapest vending machines.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

This museum showcases the art of ancient sword-making.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

A vending machine dedicated to a beloved seaweed.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan.

The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

This vintage theme park is peak Christmas kitsch—and it's open all summer.

Central City celebrates its most famous madam by racing beds down Main Street.

The walls, tables, and much of the ceiling in this pizzeria are covered with $40,000 in $1 bills.

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.

This unassuming building houses one of the world's most extensive collections of cars created by automotive legend Carroll Shelby.

Have a heavy metal Christmas at this bizarre Turkish-American restaurant.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

See 150 million-year-old dinosaur tracks and bones dating back to the Jurassic period.

A tiny town’s tiny museum with some gigantic residents.

In the middle of a suburban Denver neighborhood is a cave that once provided solace for a prominent Ute chief and his family.

An artist-run shop filled with art inspired by and made from nature.