Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

No one knows why this family’s graves stayed on the national museum's premises after all other tombstones were relocated.

An unusual structure of stone and glass honoring one of Japan’s most eminent Christian leaders who founded the non-church movement.

A collection of nostalgic items from the Showa era with an exhibit on the local ghost story of the Snow Woman.

A giant gorilla guardian of the neighborhood, warning people to drive safely.

A museum of space exploration in the UFO capital of Japan.

The only electricity pylon built over two lanes of traffic.

This abandoned, spaceship-like building is home to a museum so unpopular that it has been put on hiatus for over two decades.

An abandoned Art Deco hotel nestled on the side of a wooded mountain.

Nestled in an unassuming residential area, this "forbidden forest" is rumored to spirit away those who dare enter it.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

This concrete sculpture features a woman opening her heart to showcase a beautiful fern.

These markers are used to determine the ground stability of the Strip.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.