Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

These vibrant row houses are a unique example of Baltimore kitsch.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

This historic castle is one of the oldest and most impressive in all of Japan.

This small Japanese street is lined with figures, sculptures and a shrine dedicated to frogs.

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

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

A precursor to Taro Okamoto’s iconic Tower of the Sun.

Japan’s tallest Godzilla statue contains a piece of the original 1954 film within its base.

This park boasts a unusual collection of curious monuments from around the world, from Micronesia to Antarctica.

Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.

Public opinion is still divided on this enormous sculpture in front of Baltimore's Penn Station.

An abandoned textile mill that is now home to art and concerts.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This Annapolis home was built by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.