This statue of the "shiny uncle of Beppu" was erected in 2007.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

This amusement park brings a little slice of England to the heart of Kyushu.

The iconic castle that withstood a magnitude 6.2 earthquake has become a symbol of resilience.

Surreal giant face-pillars welcome visitors from across the globe to this hotel.

A moss-covered statue of a Japanese Buddhist deity stands at a quiet temple in downtown Osaka.

Once the main gateway to Tokyo, sneaking through this checkpoint was a capital offense in feudal times.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

When the USA donated cement and funds to expand the airport in Laos, the Laotians built a massive monument instead.

A quaint village where bomb casings from the Second Indochina War have been repurposed into mundane objects.

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

A manifestation of modernist architectural ideas, this massive, multi-purpose building was one of the first of its kind in Southeast Asia.

This statue once earned the distinction as one of the "Three Major Disappointments of the World."

Rainbow shutters decorate this former police station.

CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

These spectacular, symbolic serpents lie within the shadow of the Great Temple.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

Get a privileged view over Mexico City's Historic Center from a terrace right in its heart.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.