A park built around the legend of a clam-loving giant who created a monumental midden.

This phallic temple was erected in the forest to honor the tragic death of a samurai lord's son.

Next door to Tokyo DisneySea is a giant sculpture created by Taro Okamoto symbolizing the dynamism of life.

At a Japanese train station, a goddess emerges from a dumpling.

Unbeknownst to most passersby, this marble statue standing outside an office building is a genuine piece of second-century Rome.

One in a pair of subterranean caves created by an ancient eruption of Mount Fuji.

One of three official copies of Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic masterpiece is on display in an obscure Tokyo museum.

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

Art school in the Amazon: Drugs, nature and sustainable agriculture.

This village is home to the largest existing settlement of the Ainu, the Indigenous people of Japan.

Designed by a computer, this intricate network of fluorescent green pipes has taken over a subway station.

According to one legend, this bridge was crafted after monkeys formed a body-bridge across the gorge.

This museum is dedicated to the cultural history of tobacco and salt, once monopolized in Japan.

This futuristic public park includes large sculptures and an artificial geyser.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

This unimaginably large pile of sand near Nazca is one of the tallest dunes in the world.

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

The highest tropical mountain range in the world is in Central Peru, home to a vast array of exotic and quirky plants and animals.

Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?

A jungle cave in Peru of unknown depths, otherworldly sounds, and strange nocturnal birds that navigate by echolocation.

A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.