Ikeda, Japan
Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum
An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.
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Ikeda, Japan
An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.
Nara, Japan
This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.
Nara, Japan
Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.
Tokyo, Japan
The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.
Tokyo, Japan
The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.
Tokyo, Japan
Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.
Tokyo, Japan
This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.
Tokyo, Japan
A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.
Tokyo, Japan
Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.
Singapore
Colorful umbrella-covered trees in Singapore's Little India look straight out of Dr. Seuss.
Singapore
This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.
Singapore
Singapore's landscaping project is home to 18 incredible Supertrees.
Batu Caves, Malaysia
Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.
Ottawa, Ontario
Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.
Bang Muang Mai, Thailand
This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.
Phraeksa, Thailand
All of Thailand's architectural landmarks, plus some made up ones, all viewable via two-seater bicycle.
Ottawa, Ontario
This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.
Pompeii, Italy
The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.
Tambon Saen Suk, Thailand
Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Khmer Rouge's high security prison.
Siem Reap, Cambodia
A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.
Vientiane, Laos
More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.
Tambon Wat That, Thailand
Bizarre Hindu and Buddhist sculpture park.