The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

The Victoria-era quarantine station for Sydney.

It's said to be one of the most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art in the world.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

The statue honors an adventurous seafaring cat.

This extremely naked God of Drunkards welcomes visitors to Kochi Station.

A kitsch shrine dedicated to the ogre-slaying folktale hero born from a peach.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

A sad reminder of the World War II bombing stands largely unnoticed on a street corner.

Is this cat asleep or just pretending?

This brothel-turned-restaurant features plenty of surprises and elaborate, extravagant architecture.

These unconventional "tub boats" let locals row around the island's turbulent coast.

Although it has never been a secret ninja base, this shrine still has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.

This snack factory boasts several tributes to its popular line of rice crackers, including a quasi-shrine.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

This whimsical garbage disposal facility receives around 12,000 accidental tourists each year.

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

A whimsical museum dedicated to the mischievous kappa, a mythical cucumber-loving water sprite.

Turn around and stick your head between your legs for the best view of this tree-covered sandbar.

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

Have a soak at this retro bathhouse, where you will find Japan's first electric bath, tiling from Spain, and wood carvings representing the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

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

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.