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Seoul, South Korea
Trick Eye Museum
South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.
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Tokyo, Japan
Nakagin Capsule Tower
The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.
Tokyo, Japan
Shakaden Reiyukai Temple
Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.
Fujinomiya, Japan
Tenshou-Kyousha Shrine Mermaid Mummy
Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.
Taipei, Taiwan
Modern Toilet Restaurant
Looking for a crappy restaurant? Pull up a porcelain bowl and enjoy your meal.
Xiulin Township, Taiwan
Eternal Spring Shrine
A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.
Xiulin Township, Taiwan
Taroko Gorge
An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.
Marble Bar, Australia
Strelley Pool
Microscopic fossils suggest Australia may be the birthplace of sulphur-based life forms.
Wagin, Australia
Giant Ram
Everything about this over-size novelty animal is huge including its testicles.
Cervantes, Australia
The Pinnacles
Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.
Yeal, Australia
The Leaning Tower of Gingin
The world's "leaniest" tower encourages you to test the gravity of its situation.
Two Rocks, Australia
Atlantis Marine Park
An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.
North Coogee, Australia
The South Fremantle Power Station
The ruins of a once prosperous power station have become a mouldering seaside gem.
Reykjavik, Iceland
Piece of Berlin Wall In Iceland
A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.
Sintra, Portugal
Quinta da Regaleira
This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.
Évora, Portugal
Portugal’s Chapel of Bones
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Évora, Portugal
Almendres Cromlech
"Portugal's Stonehenge" is made up of nut-like stones aligned with the heavens.
Alcobaça, Portugal
Tomb of Inês de Castro
The corpse bride of Portugal.
London, England
Highgate Cemetery
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
London, England
Hoxton Street Monster Supplies
A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.
London, England
Village Underground
Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.
London, England
Stables Market
Catacombs turned marketplace.
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London, England
Stompie: The Mandela Way T-34 Tank
An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.
London, England
I Goat
Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.
