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This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

Inhospitable caverns just beneath this island paradise offer insights into alien worlds.

The world’s largest underwater sculpture is found just off the coast of Nassau.

One of the deepest blue holes in the world.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

One of only a handful of seaside temples in Korea, this sacred space is home to a legendary healing Buddha statue and a traffic safety prayer pagoda.

Trees emerge from the surface of this small man-made reservoir.

This human-made pond is part of a Korean palace complex first built in the 7th century.

The toilet-shaped house of South Korea's sanitation pioneer is now a museum to the john.

Along a rail-biking route, giant insects house a two-story restaurant.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

The 400-year-old remains of the samurai invasion of Korea.

Various forms of phallic art decorate this hill in commemoration of legendary local tragedy.

About as hidden as can be, this specialty coffee shop is wedged between multi-story buildings at the end of a dark, skinny alleyway in Seoul.

South Korea's only sex-themed park.