A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

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

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

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

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

These biodiverse university gardens form a green oasis amid the urban chaos of Mexico City.

A monument to the forgotten French explorers and their landmark expedition.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.