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

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

A moss-covered statue of a Japanese Buddhist deity stands at a quiet temple in downtown Osaka.

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

This shrine dedicated to a legendary swordsman has become a pilgrimage site for the ill and infirmed.

Rice balls symbolize fate and relationship at this adorable shrine, which was once dedicated to the Buddhist Devil.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A unique local art exhibit that has continued to grow since 1989.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.