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The unusual sculptures are believed to be powerful political symbols.

A small memorial to a deadly night in Serbia that shook the world before it was swept under the rug.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

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

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

A Japanese shrine to dolls.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

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

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

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

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

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

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.