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This Khmer temple is named after a young woman who sacrificed herself to protect the city from a disastrous deluge.

An imperial art museum offers edible versions of its most treasured displays in an on-site fine-dining restaurant.

Taiwan's last Chinese character letterpress preserves the dying art of Chinese character mold making.

Remnants of the most densely packed city in world history, that thrived on anarchy for 30 years.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.

This village is home to the largest existing settlement of the Ainu, the Indigenous people of Japan.

Inaccessible by foot, Japan's most secluded train station sits in the middle of nowhere.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

The train engine is tucked under an apartment building on a quiet Tokyo street.

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

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.