An LED art installation composed of 600 poles wrapped in kimono fabric.

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

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

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

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

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

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

The seat of the lost Ryukyu Kingdom has survived numerous fires and wars over the centuries.

The smaller of the three towers of San Marino is a former prison inaccessible from the ground level.

High in the clouds of San Marino sits an ancient tower with some curious prisoner graffiti.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

This building has survived for more than a century and remains virtually untouched.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

An underground city of salt.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.