This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

The first location of the eventual video game giant.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

These turtle-shaped concrete stepping stones provide a unique river crossing in central Kyoto.

An LED art installation composed of 600 poles wrapped in kimono fabric.

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

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

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

This bathhouse includes an option to soak in radioactive water.

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

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.

Luminaries from Albert Einstein to John Lennon once had a cup of coffee at Tokyo's oldest café.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Various accidents and illnesses fell upon the developers who tried to remove these historic trees.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

A local student's chance encounter with Keith Haring led to the creation of one of Europe's largest murals.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.