This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

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

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

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

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

This macabre masterpiece of a mural is one of Francisco Goya's "Black Paintings."

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

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

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

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

Ireland's most remarkable collection of these curious cone-shaped houses is worth the buzz.