Tekija, Serbia
Tabula Traiana
A Roman monument to their own civil engineering prowess.
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Tekija, Serbia
A Roman monument to their own civil engineering prowess.
Mitrovica, Kosovo
Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.
Belogradchik, Bulgaria
Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.
Mito, Japan
The only electricity pylon built over two lanes of traffic.
Shintotsukawa, Japan
A museum in Hokkaido is housed in a former high school. On its grounds a marker shares the awakening of a man who longs to be reunited with his soulmate in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.
Tokyo, Japan
Disaster prevention apartment blocks in Sumida Ward are designed to save as many as possible in the face of the inevitable.
Osaka, Japan
A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.
Komatsushima-shi, Japan
A statue of a mischievous raccoon towers over this city park.
Osaka, Japan
Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.
Nichinan-shi, Japan
These seven moai figures are the world's only sanctioned replicas of the Easter Island originals.
Tokyo, Japan
Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.
Kawasaki, Japan
An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.
Kure, Japan
"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."
Yūbari-shi, Japan
This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.
Inuyama, Japan
An anthropological theme park that depicts the cultures of around 20 different countries.
Kumano-chō, Japan
This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.
Kyoto, Japan
A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.
Neyagawa-shi, Japan
A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.
Kyoto, Japan
When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.
Aomori, Japan
These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.
Tokorozawa, Japan
An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.
Karatsu, Japan
The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.
Kyoto, Japan
Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.
Miyoshi, Japan
A statue erected on an infamous cliff where young boys would hold dangerous "pee offs" to prove their mettle.