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

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

This battleship of a building was designed by a famed "mad architect."

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

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

This ordinary set of steps is a must-see destination for fans of a certain romantic anime.

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

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.

This monument to one of the largest science fiction games of all time bears the names of hundreds of thousands of players.

This five-foot-tall bronze bird is a memorial to a species that was hunted out of existence.

This plaque tells the story of an event that took place in an imagined parallel universe.