Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

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

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

Where Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' were born.

The idyllic island where the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent “the happiest time of his life.”

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

Study the Alien etchings in this fountain while you refill your water bottle.

Everything from alchemy books to building plans for the Eiffel Tower are housed inside this museum.

On the side of a building, a depiction of the woman who became a local legend by tossing soup out her window.

A 30-foot-high stream of chocolate flows continuously at the Lindt Home of Chocolate.

Walk down these stairs to get an underwater view of Switzerland's Lake Zug.

Middle-earth in the middle of Switzerland.

An interactive exhibition space dedicated to the kinetic sculptures of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely.

This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.

The smallest museum in Basel, Switzerland, is a two-foot-by-two-foot window in the door of a 600-year-old house.

A trove of ridiculously valuable prints and manuscripts under one roof.