This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

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

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

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.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.