A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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

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

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

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

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

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.