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

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

A local prank turned town icon.

These boots are made for selfies.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.