Victoria's largest salt lake is a favorite haunt for photographers and stargazers.

A 19th-century baker stands ready to serve customers.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

A moss-covered statue of a Japanese Buddhist deity stands at a quiet temple in downtown Osaka.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

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

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

Fowl, love and death in Vietnam.

This candy-pink cathedral of Da Nang is also known as the Chicken Church.

Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.

Vietnam's largest Buddha statue depicts a female sage.

One of Vietnam's most iconic landmarks was built by Japanese traders and is now in danger of sinking.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

This Vietnamese bar doubles as a multistory labyrinth.

This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.