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

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

This unassuming tree stump reportedly traces its roots to the famous pharaoh queen's reign.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

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

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

Nature and art meet in this curvy creation

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.