An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

A perfectly circular stronghold constructed in the 10th century is now a nucleus of Viking culture housing a museum, village, and reenactment of an epic Viking battle.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

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

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.