Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

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

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

At the center of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a deep chasm ringed by tall waterfalls.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

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

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

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

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.