This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

The tiny airport in remote Newfoundland that inspired a hit musical is also a modernist architectural gem.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

A bizarre collection of gifts to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il from the despots of the world.

A vast museum devoted to North Korea's victories against its imperialist enemies.

Captured in 1968, the Cold War spy ship is the only U.S. Navy vessel being held by a foreign government.

A symbol of the Workers' Party of North Korea.

A highly symbolic tower in honor of Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung's personal philosophy.

A giant bronze monument to Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il is one of the most sacred sites in North Korea.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

Berlin's old airport.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.