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

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

This is the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first cemetery museum in the world.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

This whimsical sculpture garden is a local treasure.

This unique zoo is the only place in the world where you can see all 15 species of crane.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

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

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.