This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

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

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

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

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.