Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Disused for decades, this freight railway bridge is finally being renovated into a scenic promenade.

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

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

This Metabolist, retro-futuristic residential complex resembles a cyberpunk space colony established on Earth.

The last remaining pre-dreadnought battleship in the world has been a museum for nearly a century.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

Remnants of an old bank adorn this station's brick wall.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

This historic club for wayward boys has shaped some of the biggest names in music almost as much as they have shaped it.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Centuries of warfare, tragedy, executions, and poetry come together in this 13th-century fortress.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.