The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

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

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

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

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

One of the best-preserved remains of "Tokyo's lost rivers."

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

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

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

The seat of the lost Ryukyu Kingdom has survived numerous fires and wars over the centuries.

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

It has an American Dream Car exhibit, Europe's largest Formula One collection, and many, many mannequins.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

Germany's longest suspension rope bridge.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.