The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.

An active seahorse farm is currently saving Tasmania's handfish from extinction.

A faceless folk hero and his legacy of comfortable, expertly-crafted chairs lives on in a small Tasmanian town.

A small troop of Japanese macaques live peacefully in the heart of this Tasmanian city.

A historical umbrella shop, whose owner started a craze for locally-made souvenirs.

The history of this famed tree ranges from an 18th-century highway robber, to the Scout Association.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

Hanging over one of Japan's "hidden valleys," these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

Hundreds of statues of Buddha’s disciples meditating, napping, sneezing, and picking their noses.

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

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

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

Taxidermy of the racing horse with a huge heart, who inspired hope in the Depression.