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

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Royal milk tea was invented here at the Far Eastern capital of Sir Thomas Lipton’s tea empire

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

This compact temple is filled with garlands of colorful balls that represent restrained monkeys.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This garden located inside a bamboo forest once belonged to a famous Japanese actor.

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

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

This temple is home to a group of Buddha statues made from thousands of bones and ashes of the deceased.

Visitors to this temple are greeted by a massive collection of wooden dolls said to bring good fortune.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

According to local legend, anyone who falls on these temple steps will turn into a cat.

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

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

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

A Buddhist temple on an artificial island that houses a monument to the fugu fish.

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.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.