The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Rubbing salt on this small stone dog is said to make wishes come true.

A miniature shrine in the busy corner of Tokyo's historic Broadway, honoring a sextet of unusual entertainment gods.

A touching statue dedicated to Japan's first therapy dog.

A hole-in-the-wall antiquities museum in one of Tokyo's most popular megamalls.

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

This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

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

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.