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Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

Historical Japanese-Dutch relations are honored with haunted rides and flower fields in this replica town.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

The world’s first hotel to be run by robots.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

A 17th-century Shinto shrine that is home to statues of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.