An avant-garde artist is survived by his seaside garden.

A statue paying homage to a world-record-setting aviator who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

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

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

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

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

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.