The traditional houses along the coast of this charming Japanese fishing village allow people to sleep above the sea.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.

This pair of small sea rocks has been "wed" using rope and ancient Shinto tradition.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

A Portuguese Jewish cemetery filled with stunning grave monuments that date back to 1614.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

In the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey lies the alleged resting place of the legendary king.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

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

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.