This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

A son-and-daughter meat market, hawked by mom and dad.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

This former textile district now is now a thriving center for contemporary Chinese art.

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

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

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

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

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

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

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.

Taxidermy of the racing horse with a huge heart, who inspired hope in the Depression.

The gigantic preserved heart of a champion racehorse.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.