Welcome to AirNenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Many folkloric and mythological objects do not appear in real life.

Poseidon's trident, Paul Bunyan's axe, and King Arthur's sword ex-caliber.

They're all known to just about everyone, yet there are nothing more than fiction.

The same goes for certain structures. There have been no reports of a witch's house running

through the Russian wilderness on chicken legs, and yet the tale of Baba Yaga is one that's

passed down from generation to generation.

But sometimes, an item or building jumps out of the story and into reality.

In Japan, for example, there's a bridge with a tall tale behind it.

About 50 miles from Tokyo in Yamanashi Prefecture is the city of Otsuki.

This history dates all the way back to the Jomon period, between 14,300 BCE.

The city was nearly wiped off the map in 1945, two days before the end of World War

2, following a bombing by the United States.

But it was able to bounce back after two other towns and four villages combined to form

a new Otsuki in 1954.

Despite hundreds of years of change and turmoil, including near extinction, one of the city's

lasting treasures is the Saruhashi Bridge. Also known as the Monkey Bridge, it's listed

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