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Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

One of Japan's most famous sights, the bridge was originally built in 1673.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

This retro underwater observation tower would make the perfect lair for a sea-loving villain.

Although it has never been a secret ninja base, this shrine still has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

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

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.