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Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

A crazy maze of a hostel, where every trap door and secret entrance brings you to a new wacky, wonderful room.

The unique funeral practices of the Toraja can be seen here with graves carved into caves and hung off cliffs.

The wing of this deserted Boeing 737 almost touches the Dunkin' Donuts next door.

Where cemeteries are carved into the side of cliffs and infants are buried in the hollows of trees.

This Sumatran root bridge took almost 30 years to knit itself together.

Someone left a Boeing 737 in a field in southern Bali.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

This statue once earned the distinction as one of the "Three Major Disappointments of the World."

From prostitutes to soldiers to business men, the dead in this graveyard are a microcosm of Singapore's history with Japan.

The busy transport hub is home to the tallest airport slide in the world.

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.

The largest pool at its elevation sits on top of one of the most expensive resorts in the world.

A mausoleum dedicated to a warrior felled by misplaced loyalty and tragic circumstances.

Hang out with thousands of butterflies in one of the world's largest such enclosures.

The largest Chinese cemetery in the world outside of China dates back to the 15th century.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Southeast Asia is a monument to a disappearing community.

Two thousand feline artifacts fill Malaysia's "Cat City."

A self-funded cemetery with a long list of inhabitants.

People can't get enough of these adorable Japanese photobooths.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.