Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

The largest underground church in Europe.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

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

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

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

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

These Japanese gardens are blankets of light for dark winter nights.

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.