These unique toilets feature transparent glass covered in PDLC film.

If you forgot something to read during your trip to Tokyo, this hostel has you covered.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

One of the world's largest tanks mimics the experience of watching rare whale sharks, giant rays, and deep sea creatures from the ocean floor.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.