More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

This tiny Vietnamese village is known for eating snakes and serving their still-beating hearts in shots of vodka.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

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

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

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

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.