Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This unassuming tunnel’s name recalls a storied "cat pond" that has now been lost.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

Dining in this grain cellar feels like stepping onto a fantasy film set.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

Video games, body language, and postal history are all on display in this Swiss museum.

The skeleton of a 19th-century elephant that was executed by cannonball.

One of the few places in the world that let's you legally relieve yourself on a UNESCO world heritage site.

This bunny-eared Moses represents an attempted compromise between two biblical interpretations.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.

Once a year a small English town gets together to chase oranges down a steep hill in honor of a legendary accident.

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

Host to the annual Festival of the Snakes.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.