A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

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

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

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

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

This stately structure has been abandoned for half a century.

The only museum and archive west of the Mississippi that is dedicated to the study of Abraham Lincoln.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

A tribute to the disposable cups that were once manufactured here, this 68-foot-tall statue would be difficult to throw away.

Mexican food and folk art.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

A museum dedicated to restoring vintage aircraft, located at a working airport.