A spectacular annual festival centers around humans throwing molten iron against a wall at night.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

A festival where people vie to be bombarded by exploding clusters of fireworks.

Of five volcanoes located in the massive Tengger caldera, this cone is the youngest and most active.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

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

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Designed by a computer, this intricate network of fluorescent green pipes has taken over a subway station.

Deep in the Negev Desert, the world's tallest solar tower looks like a sight straight out of science fiction.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

Tall columns of volcanic basalt make up this improbable-seeming rock formation.

A massive, abstract lookout tower providing a panoramic view of Prague.

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.