After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.

This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.

This eccentric cave dwelling is bizarre even by the standards of a subterranean town.

These Australian rock formations look like Martian beehives that have grown up out of the landscape.

WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

A stray meteor left this picturesque hole in the Australian outback.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

A bovine sumo match in which both bulls live to fight another day.

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

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