Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

Despite finally receiving electricity in 1970, this tiny town is now deserted.

The abandoned village of Skarð aptly illustrates the idiom "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."

The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.