Hakone, Japan
Owakudani Black Eggs
Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.
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Hakone, Japan
Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.
Tokyo, Japan
Guarding the city of Chiyoda is a bizarre insectile creature with a name no one can pronounce.
Tokyo, Japan
Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.
Kamakura, Japan
A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.
Kamakura, Japan
In the former treasury of a popular temple, a rare sculptural depiction of Kannon’s diverse avatars.
Tokyo, Japan
The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.
Las Vegas, Nevada
The birthplace of Las Vegas is now preserved as a historic and natural area.
Las Vegas, Nevada
The largest recovered section of Titanic sits in a hotel in Las Vegas.
Mecca, California
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.
Bombay Beach, California
Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.
Borrego Springs, California
Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.
Borrego Springs, California
A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.
Palm Springs, California
This giant spider sculpture made from the iconic car is one giant visual pun.
Palm Springs, California
The so-called "Bridge of Thighs" in Palm Springs allows nudists to discreetly cross the road.
San Diego, California
Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.
Mexico City, Mexico
Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.
Mexico City, Mexico
The unique collection often goes unnoticed by visitors focused only on the archaeological objects.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.
Teuchitlán, Mexico
The jewel of western Mexico's archaeological legacy is this tiered circular pyramid now covered in grass.
Ajijic, Mexico
The corner walls of a primary school showcase a Mexican version of memento mori.
Guadalajara, Mexico
This structure was moved nearly 40 feet while people continued working inside it.
Guadalajara, Mexico
One of the oldest hospitals in the Americas is now decorated in hallucinatory murals.
Mexico City, Mexico
This ancient jade mask depicting the Zapotec bat god was found in the ruins of the pyramids of Monte Alban.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Fans have made a utility pole near where the 90s musician was shot into an ersatz memorial.