Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.

A giant bisected onion dome remembers the Iraqis who died in the Iran-Iraq War.

Burial site of a Jewish prophet revered in Iran.

A bisected journey through evolution's history in the heart of Beijing.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

Thanks to the building of a life-giving reservoir, part of the Great Wall of China is now a dive site.

This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

A Chinese mining company has created the world's first cloned village in this perfect recreation of an Austrian town.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

A derelict New Zealand-themed amusement park in Japan.

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

A village in India with a mysteriously high number of twins.

A piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh inside a piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh.

Megalithic monuments resembling magic mushrooms.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.