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Weighing nearly seven tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

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

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

This kitsch-forward diner is dedicated to an almost-forgotten “one-cent” prototype of okonomiyaki.

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

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

These ancient artifacts are a testament to the enduring significance of the bull in Spanish culture.

Just like in Hollywood, Madrid has also a forgotten walk of fame.

A subterranean relic of the Spanish Civil War hides below this picturesque park.

The little church's beautifully frescoed ceiling has earned it the nickname “the Sistine Chapel of Madrid.”

A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

The former home of a Portuguese poet, artist, and collector is packed to the brim with art.

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.

Peaceful gardens hide an underground torture museum.

The ruins of a 2,000-year-old Roman fishing village perched on one of the best beaches in Spain.