Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

The artwork immortalizes one of 20th-century Ireland's leading creatives.

Huge standing stones mark a site of megalithic mystery.

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

This ordinary set of steps is a must-see destination for fans of a certain romantic anime.

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

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

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

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

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

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

A striking memorial recalls thousands of Bolognese men and women killed fighting fascists in World War II.

Italy's curious field of mud volcanoes is named for being both gross AND salty.

This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.