A bizarre object of worship believed to grant wishes to those who tie it up with a rope.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.

An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

This seaside production studio was built to film 'Titanic' and has been the wet set of choice for other Hollywood productions since.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.