Tokyo, Japan
Mohri Garden Pond
An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.
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Tokyo, Japan
An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.
Tokyo, Japan
Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.
Tokyo, Japan
Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.
Tokyo, Japan
Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.
Tokyo, Japan
This museum celebrates the history of Japanese advertising, from feudal business tricks to modern T.V. commercials.
Tokyo, Japan
A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.
Tokyo, Japan
A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.
Tokyo, Japan
An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.
Tokyo, Japan
Japan’s tallest Godzilla statue contains a piece of the original 1954 film within its base.
Denby Dale, England
Before this fine stone viaduct was built, trains ran across a rather wobbly wooden trestle, and the original abutments are still there.
Wakefield, England
A tiny chapel perched along a 14th-century bridge.
Louth, England
A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.
Cleethorpes, England
The first privately owned air raid shelter in Britain, built after a horrifying night of Zeppelin bombings.
Grimsby, England
A 12th-century church that houses a dark creature.
Saint-Front-sur-Lémance, France
A bizarre sculpture garden in the south of France.
Angles-sur-l'Anglin, France
This imposing castle has stood for nearly a thousand years.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.
Rocamadour, France
This medieval village clings to a cliff in southwestern France.
Orniac, France
An unusual, funny and fantastic open air museum.
Toulouse, France
There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Laxe, Spain
Tiny Spanish beach covered in sea glass.
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
This enormous censer uses a pulley system installed over 400 years ago.
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
An accidental trick of light casts the perfect shadow of a pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago against the cathedral wall.