This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

The small sanctuaries lie just off the beaten path near one of Bhutan's most famous attractions.

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

This bar and museum are devoted to the controversial comic book work of Kája Saudek.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an eighth-century Buddhist master.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

Taiwan's only erotically-themed restaurant brings the comedy back to sex and dinner.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

Mexico's first public cable car soars over the congested streets outside Mexico City.

A boulder carved into the shape of the cosmonaut's head.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

Hidden in the hills is a mysterious stone structure, known only to a few.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.