Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

A unique shrine dedicated to the deified skull of a 17th-century Tokyo courtesan.

This gnome sculpture and his wonderous hat forces train passengers to do a double-take.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.

These unique toilets feature transparent glass covered in PDLC film.

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

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A charming, homemade vending machine dispenses burgers and sandwiches at this hole-in-the-wall bakery.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

This “peasant café” in the middle of Tokyo re-creates the atmosphere of the Japanese countryside.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

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

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.