The 10,000 Torii shrine.

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

Surreal giant face-pillars welcome visitors from across the globe to this hotel.

This quirky collection of furniture also happens to be a public art installation.

Take a few seconds to look at this abandoned, art-filled station as you pass by on the subway to Ueno.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

The ruins of an important pilgrimage destination for worshippers of a Maya fertility goddess.

An old slave lookout in Cuba's historic sugar cane fields.

His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now immortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer."

No one knows the meaning behind this giant sculpture of a nude woman with a fork riding a rooster in Havana.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

Castro's communist ice cream mothership has been serving five-scoop "salads" for over 50 years.

A Spanish-style estate that has traded black ties for rock concerts.

A colorful narrow alley in Cuba is full of street art and sculptures made of found objects.

In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.

This subterranean disco dance club in a Cuban cave comes with bright lights and a dark legend.

Though it was originally dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva, Baphuon was converted to a Buddhist temple in the 15th century, complete with a massive hidden statue.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Myanmar's Mount Olympus atop a 2,500-foot volcanic plug.