This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

Does this strange mural depict witches battling beneath a penis tree?

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

The forbidden island of the Tuscan Archipelago may still contain buried treasure.

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

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

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

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.