This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

Unlikely place for krautrock legends to hang out.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

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

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

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

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.