The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

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

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.