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

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

Filled with history, this cemetery is maintained each summer by a few hungry goats.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.