This modern medieval weapon of war was built to toss pumpkins.

This massive Trojan ursine was built to be a new tourist symbol for a small Swedish town.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

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

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

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

These Japanese gardens are blankets of light for dark winter nights.

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

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This sprawling collection hides many charms.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

This Canadian exhibit with claims as the largest one man taxidermy collection in North America.

The world's largest and most outstanding marl lake regularly changes color.

This huge concrete map of Scotland was built as a thank you gift from a Polish soldier.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

This tiny Vietnamese village is known for eating snakes and serving their still-beating hearts in shots of vodka.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.