This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

The deepest underground city in Turkey was designed to protect 20,000 people behind massive stone doors.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

A Red Cross memorial museum at the site of the Niš concentration camp that operated for four eventful years during World War II.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

A miniature train-ride through Slovenia's largest cave system.

The "dragon babies" of southeastern Europe.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.