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

Exploring crime and punishment in feudal and pre-modern Japan.

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

This brothel-turned-restaurant features plenty of surprises and elaborate, extravagant architecture.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

These 250-year-old wagon tracks are a lasting sign of Dutch migrants crossing the mountains.

All that remains of a Japanese fishing vessel that ran aground in 1982.

A giant concrete Brutalist water tower in suburban Johannesburg.

See four top-secret US spy aircraft of the Cold War era, including the legendary SR-71 Blackbird and the A-12 Oxcart.