This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

Visitors to this park are welcomed by an ancient Japanese megalithic tomb that dates back to the sixth century.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

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

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

The largest and oldest brick pagoda in Korea.

An unusual pagoda design in in the northwestern part of Hwaeomsa Temple.

Known as the birthplace of Korean Buddhism, this temple features an ancient, five-story stone pagoda.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

A Korean village where times stands still.

About as hidden as can be, this specialty coffee shop is wedged between multi-story buildings at the end of a dark, skinny alleyway in Seoul.

Artistic tombs, monuments, and a beautiful "Hall of Fame" lurk inside this cemetery.

A poignant museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

A tiny park off the beaten path covered in ingenious scrap metal sculptures.

Mostly underground in the old days Back in the USSR, today the Beatles beckon to tourists from a wall sculpture out in the open in central Russia.

Russia's giant concrete QWERTY keyboard is likely the largest in the world.

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.

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