A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Here lies Hattori Hanzō, a samurai who is remembered as a legendary ninja in today’s popular culture.

Third time's a charm, or in this case, two testicles are.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Despite what a Thai tourism board might want you to think, this white-sand beach is in fact located on a Scottish island.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This stunning 15th-century royal hill fort preserves the age of chivalry in Rajasthan.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

The remnants of a facade from a 19th-century market stall emporium.

A rare memorial paying homage to an altruistic woman from the 19th-century.