After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock.

An ornate plague column – built to celebrate life – claimed the lives of numerous artisans during its construction.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.