This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

This tiny traditional smokehouse is the only one left in this historic fishing port.

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

This restaurant was removed from the famed sister ship of the Titanic and placed within a hotel.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A Hungarian optometrist's charming collection of Asian art and curiosities.

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

This hidden art nouveau gem was designed by an architect in search of a national style.

Tucked away near more famous landmarks lies a statue meant to symbolize the confluence and continuing development of human culture.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.