Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

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

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

A desert in southeast Asia, complete with a beautiful lake covered in lotus flowers.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

This historic spot was where America's involvement in the Vietnam War officially came to an end.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

Life-sized painted illusions let pedestrians blend in with the street art.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.