Nagasaki, Japan
Gunkanjima Island
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
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Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Tokyo, Japan
A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.
Tokyo, Japan
Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.
Tokyo, Japan
Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.
Fujinomiya-shi, Japan
A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.
Yamanouchi, Japan
Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.
Kawasaki, Japan
This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.
Kyoto, Japan
The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.
Kitakyushu, Japan
An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.
Ishinomaki, Japan
On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.
Nuremberg, Germany
This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.
Munich, Germany
A serious museum dedicated to two German comedians.
Munich, Germany
This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.
Munich, Germany
One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.
Munich, Germany
Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.
Munich, Germany
Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.
Oberweser, Germany
The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.
Dusseldorf, Germany
A varied collection of brains in alcohol.
Kunštát, Czechia
An army of sleeping knights sculpted by a self-taught local artist beautifully depict an old Czech legend.
Hawarden, Wales
At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.
Bielefeld, Germany
According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.
London, England
One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.
Budapest, Hungary
The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.
London, England
The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.