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It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

A monument to the defenders of the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia.

Right up until the 20th century this network of man-made caves was the biggest village in Eastern Armenia.

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.

Rice balls symbolize fate and relationship at this adorable shrine, which was once dedicated to the Buddhist Devil.

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

A sculpture that resurrected the only tree standing following the devastating 2011 tsunami.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

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

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

This museum is dedicated to the cultural history of tobacco and salt, once monopolized in Japan.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

One of the few surviving World War II-era air-raid shelters in Tokyo.

Visitors to this museum will discover that kaleidoscopes are much more than toys.

A quaint amusement park now sits, rusting and forgotten among the foliage.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

Existing for more than four centuries, the last of Hakone’s historic teahouses serves a sweet, mold-based rice drink.

A massive wintry wall of snow up to 66 feet tall flanks a highway through Japan's mountains.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.