This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

When the USA donated cement and funds to expand the airport in Laos, the Laotians built a massive monument instead.

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

An LED art installation composed of 600 poles wrapped in kimono fabric.

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

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

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

"The Dance of Fools" is Japan's largest dance festival.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.