The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

One of the most photographed buildings in a city known for its Modernista architecture is an abandoned squat.

This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

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

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”

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

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

A statue erected on an infamous cliff where young boys would hold dangerous "pee offs" to prove their mettle.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.