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

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

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.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

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

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

The iconic castle that withstood a magnitude 6.2 earthquake has become a symbol of resilience.

'The Letters of Utrecht' lays out a ribbon of poetry one letter at a time, with no final verse in sight.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

A Dutch clog company in the town of Zaandam loves the wooden shoes so much it made a museum for them.

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

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

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

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