A building so large that it has its own weather.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

A museum now occupies the mansion in Samoa where the prolific Scottish writer chose to spend the last years of his life.

A site of natural wonder and flying coconuts in Samoa.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

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

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

This museum/fur store is devoted to educating guests on how awful opossums can be.

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

The "punniest place on Earth” has nearly as many bull-themed puns as it does people.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

Anyone wanting to know what a dwarven mine sounds like need only visit the tunnels of this New Zealand artillery compound.

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

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