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

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

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

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

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.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

A serious museum dedicated to two German comedians.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

A varied collection of brains in alcohol.

An army of sleeping knights sculpted by a self-taught local artist beautifully depict an old Czech legend.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.