A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

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

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

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

An urban laboratory.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

The magic's in the hole!

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.