A romantic escape inspired by the legend of a child-eating five-headed dragon.

The oft-overlooked site of one of the first marine biological research facilities in the world.

An eclectic fountain commemorating the 1964 Summer Olympics.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

This frenetic mural recalls an annual festival that once took the city by storm.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

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

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

The decommissioned steam engine’s whistle can still be heard three times a day at one of Japan’s oldest train stations.

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

This unassuming office building is home to what was once the world's largest pendulum clock.

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

This stately brick building once provided supplies and equipment to lighthouses across the northeast during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

Now owned by the National Park Service, this location was once home to illegal boxing matches.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

This preserved wilderness hides the remains of a colonial grain mill used to feed George Washington's troops.

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

Family-run for more than a century, this pizzeria makes a unique mustard pie.

Just off the city’s central station hides a quaint lamp-lit alley into medieval Elsinore.

The shiny silver little brother to Copenhagen's Little Mermaid statue.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.