Home to items never before seen by the public.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

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

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

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

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

Unlikely place for krautrock legends to hang out.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

America's first public mental health facility.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

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

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

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

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.