This giant, granite purse is one of Melbourne's most unique and distinctive pieces of public art.

The sullen remains of vessels abandoned in the Port Adelaide River.

The famed literary character has a unique connection to this city.

Have a soak at this retro bathhouse, where you will find Japan's first electric bath, tiling from Spain, and wood carvings representing the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

A 17th-century Shinto shrine that is home to statues of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

This lucky bronze frog was gifted to Madrid by a casino.

The only urban monument in the world designed by the great surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

Abandoned for decades, trains still pass through the now-restored remains of one of Madrid's first metro stations.

Its appearance in "Game of Thrones" may spur on the long-awaited restoration of this medieval shipyard.

Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

The hidden ruins of an old hydroelectric plant reclaimed by nature.