Shiroishi, Japan
Shinseki Shiroishi (God Stone of Shiroishi)
A town's namesake rock has served as a spiritual matchmaker for hundreds of years.
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Shiroishi, Japan
A town's namesake rock has served as a spiritual matchmaker for hundreds of years.
Tokyo, Japan
A hole-in-the-wall antiquities museum in one of Tokyo's most popular megamalls.
Tokyo, Japan
This monument celebrates this shopping district's past history as a feudal silver mint.
Tokyo, Japan
Tragic reminders of the 1945 firebombing campaign over Tokyo still haunt this bridge.
Kyoto, Japan
One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.
Tokyo, Japan
A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.
Kyoto, Japan
Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.
Tottori-shi, Japan
Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.
Kirkcaldy, Scotland
A tribute to a child prodigy who died way too young.
Esie, Nigeria
More than 1,000 stone figures were discovered in a small Nigerian town, where they had been sitting for centuries.
Bristol, England
An ornate doorway leads to the former site of one of the city's oldest society of merchants.
Dresden, Germany
The bridge that cost Germany a World Heritage Site.
Bratislava, Slovakia
Admire dozens of life-size animals made from old scrap metal, nuts, screws, and valves.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.
West Boylston, Massachusetts
The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.
Boston, Massachusetts
In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.
Worcester, Massachusetts
A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.
Clinton, Massachusetts
This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.
Ware, Massachusetts
The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.
Charlemont, Massachusetts
A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.
Worcester, Massachusetts
This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.