1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.