Stone pillars and a petrified wedding party in the hills of North Macedonia.

This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.

This fortress dates back to the 6th century and is also the site of a controversial abandoned restoration project.

The cross-shaped memorial is filled with kitschy tributes to the late pop star.

The buildings are among the few Frank Lloyd Wright structures still standing in Japan.

A collection of biblical memorabilia.

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

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

At less than four inches in height, this iconic fictional character is the smallest public statue in all of Moldova.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

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

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

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

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

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

An open-air sewer system that was covered piece-by-piece over 300 years.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

A symbol for the opposition to nuclear power around the world.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

The largest wine cellar in the world is a 150-mile network of underground caves near the capital of Moldova.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.