A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

A unique collection of gilded age mechanical pianos.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

A hidden church in a hidden courtyard tells the story of the Miracle of Amsterdam.

Debatably clever, or just plain honest hotel advertised as "The Worst Hotel in the World."

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

The history and future of cannabis.

Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.