Prague, Czechia
Sex Machines Museum
The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.
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Prague, Czechia
The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.
Prague, Czechia
Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.
Kuta Alam, Indonesia
After a 2004 tsunami, this stranded boat was left in place.
Thimphu, Bhutan
This giant Buddha statue has 125,000 smaller Buddhas hidden inside it.
Buffalo, New York
This massive melon is a recreation of a similar gate from the Pan-American Expo.
Cochabamba, Bolivia
This giant Christ took first place in South America's religious arms race.
Keraniganj, Bangladesh
The shipyards along the outskirts of the Bangladesh capital are a flurry dangerous boat breaking and rebuilding.
Jeongseon, South Korea
This former coal mine has been turned into a sprawling modern art complex.
Tariat, Mongolia
A jagged silhouette of shamanistic stone heaps rises from the shore of this dazzling mile-high lake.
Gyeongju, South Korea
This odd museum/art gallery embraces the physiological, zoological, and ethnographic side of sex.
Urgun, Mongolia
Mongolian Buddhists believe this monastery in the Gobi desert to be the center of the world's spiritual energy.
La Paz, Bolivia
In La Paz's huge, city-sized cemetery, the deceased are stored in rows of apartment-like buildings.
Hapcheon, South Korea
Over 80,000 carved wood blocks make up one of the world's oldest intact Buddhist canons.
Jinan, South Korea
120 mortarless pagodas built by one Korean hermit.
Itaewon-ro, South Korea
Home to more than 13,000 pieces of war memorabilia and military equipment.
Seoul, South Korea
Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.
Paju, South Korea
Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.
Seoul, South Korea
A chilling monument to Korean patriots who resisted the Japanese occupation.
Sainshand, Mongolia
Hidden treasures belonging to Mongolia's most revered and multi-talented monk spent decades buried in the Gobi desert.
ambon Kalai, Thailand
A tall karst islet popularized by 007.
Mauritania
This fortified sand barrier dividing a contested territory is the longest minefield in the world.
Kharkhorin, Mongolia
The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.