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Existing for more than four centuries, the last of Hakone’s historic teahouses serves a sweet, mold-based rice drink.

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

Take a leisurely walk through the park to find the seven giant troll sculptures hidden throughout the park.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

Five mythical trolls have taken up residence in woods and hidden on paths at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

These hooded graves are the only of their kind in the United States.

Outside a small brewery, a Gothic fountain that once provided water to thirsty horses.

Pennsylvania’s creepiest roadside attraction is a haunting example of roadside kitsch.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

An underground blaze turned this village into a ghost town.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

This refurbished gas station is one of the oldest in Texas, located on the original Route 66.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.

Visit the grave of America's most prominent paranormal investigators and self-proclaimed demonologists.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.