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

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

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

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

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

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

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

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

A thriving community of Taiwanese art.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

Genitals, claws, and faces are served at this questionable Beijing eatery.

Home to over 200,000 artifacts, this museum attempts to guide visitors through the ancient history of Beijing and Imperial China.

This ancient Chinese observatory still contains early astronomy technology.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.