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

A moss-covered statue of a Japanese Buddhist deity stands at a quiet temple in downtown Osaka.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

A plaque on the side of a building is a small tribute to the woman who invented an iconic Berlin fast food.

An 18-panel Soviet mosaic showcasing the scientific advances made under socialism.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

Celebrating the Swedish ship used in the first Arctic expedition to navigate through the Northeast Passage.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

A 12th-century church that houses a dark creature.

The signatures of esteemed colleagues of the physicists who stopped by to attend lectures.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

One of the largest refracting telescopes in the world, and the first built specifically for studying astrophysics.

The world’s narrowest house makes for an awkward, four-foot-wide living space.

A statue of the heroic plumber stands outside a company that bluffed its way into being Nintendo’s Scandinavian distributor.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

A six-story, asymmetrical tower filled to the brim with scientific experiments.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.