Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

Disaster prevention apartment blocks in Sumida Ward are designed to save as many as possible in the face of the inevitable.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

When this Iron Age bog body was discovered in 1835, it was thought that she had died recently.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

The only remaining Jewish congregation in Greenpoint.

Home to first responders to Greenpoint's devastating oil fires.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

This seven story Japanese love hotel now stands in ruins.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

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