Kyoto, Japan
Nishiki Market
This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.
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Kyoto, Japan
This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.
Hiroshima, Japan
Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.
Kyoto, Japan
The 10,000 Torii shrine.
Tokyo, Japan
Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.
Tokyo, Japan
Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Yo, Adrian!
Las Vegas, Nevada
A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.
Berlin, Maryland
The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.
Monkton, Maryland
This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.
Baltimore, Maryland
Public opinion is still divided on this enormous sculpture in front of Baltimore's Penn Station.
Baltimore, Maryland
At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Baltimore, Maryland
Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.
Baltimore, Maryland
This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.
Baltimore, Maryland
Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.
Paris, France
This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.
Paris, France
The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.
Paris, France
This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.
Paris, France
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
This giant sculpture made of trash is a critique of society's wastefulness.
Lisbon, Portugal
Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.