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

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

This monumental intersection commemorates the day Okinawa switched to driving on the left.

These medieval stone-cut Buddhist statues may protect visitors from being fired.

Fans line up at the crack of dawn for a slurpy bowl of deliciousness at this noodle counter inside a factory.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

A chunk of the "true cross" is held in this small Portuguese church where modern day exorcisms are said to be common place.

Rainwater transformed this old quarry into a peaceful pond you won't find in most tourist books.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.