After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

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

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This Russian museum stresses the importance of keeping clean and even holds one of Pavlov's dogs.

When you've got to go, you've got to go.

This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum.

A fortress built to pacify local uprising that had a stint as a Nazi concentration camp before becoming a five-star hotel.

Over 300 wood sculptures depicting characters from Slavic, Greek and Western folk tales fill this magical garden.

An informal walk of fame in front of a Hollywood office building remembers a comedic great and his associates.

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

This ceremonial Mexican square looks as though it belongs in a science fiction movie.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.