The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

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

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.