A Japanese fertility god in the shape of a large phallus.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

Up on the iconic Tsutenkaku Tower sits an American mascot that became Osaka’s own lucky god.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Dine at a legendary after-hours joint frequented by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.