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A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

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

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

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

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

Locals transformed this Canadian evergreen into a secret hangout with spectacular views of Vancouver's skyline.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.