This museum showcases the art of ancient sword-making.

Take a few seconds to look at this abandoned, art-filled station as you pass by on the subway to Ueno.

When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan.

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

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

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

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

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

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

The partially submerged ruins of a white marble quarry used in ancient Greece for over 1,200 years.

This abandoned church in central Lyon is missing its front stairs.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

The Egyptian-inspired last resting place of Lord Kilmorey.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

Once the largest rope factory in Greece, this abandoned plant now stands like a ghost of industry past.

A Roman monument to their own civil engineering prowess.

A Romanian church built from one single oak.