This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

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

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

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

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

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

Once home to over 8,000 exiled Hawaiians suffering from Hansen's Disease.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.

An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.