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

This Metabolist, retro-futuristic residential complex resembles a cyberpunk space colony established on Earth.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

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

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

You don't want to get caught in this trap--or do you?

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

This plaza at the end of the world teems with monumental tributes to a problematic history, and laser discs.

One of the oldest colonial buildings still standing in South America.

An artist's statement of new uses for ordinary and discarded materials.

A beautiful riverside mansion where the intellectual life of early-20th-century Argentina flourished.

This giant power line tower is a robot that can express its moods in neon.

Bible stories are brought to life with gloriously cartoonish kitsch in this South American theme park.

The narrowest house in Buenos Aires is less than 10 feet wide.

A gateway to a mysterious network of underground tunnels.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

This striking steel sculpture transforms environmental data into art.

A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.