Places Added by Fred Cherrygarden

The climactic location of the 1977 film 'The Yellow Handkerchief' commemorates its concept of happiness.

This candy-pink cathedral of Da Nang is also known as the Chicken Church.

The birthplace of the Japanese idiom "wet clothes" meaning “false accusation."

A strip of traditional hand towel serves as an admission ticket at this modern tenugui museum.

Celebrating the works of a beloved Italian actor, known for such cult films as 'They Call Me Trinity' and 'Watch Out, We’re Mad!'

Inside this building is another country within Rome, a sovereign entity without a physical territory.

This ancient Corinthian helmet is South Korea’s only national treasure of Western origin.

Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.

The site of a Japanese traders’ settlement that once thrived in Ayutthaya, if for less than a century.

A lonely chimpanzee lures you into a narrow alley leading to this hidden shrine.

A gruesome combat between a hunter and a furious momma bear.

The groundbreaking Japanese shrine maiden who invented the art of kabuki.

A unique shrine dedicated to the deified skull of a 17th-century Tokyo courtesan.

This antique shop offers affordable 15th-century Vietnamese ceramics salvaged from a local shipwreck.

Middle-earth in the middle of Switzerland.

This mysterious tower is said to enshrine a dormant seven-headed serpent that once protected Vientiane from destruction.

Local folklore claims that this wall was not built for defense, but to provide labor during a time of famine.

A pair of giant stone heads represent the ancient Roman saints beheaded here.

Founded during the Ayutthaya era, this unique Buddhist temple remains shipshape to this day.

This museum celebrates the history of Japanese advertising, from feudal business tricks to modern T.V. commercials.

This cozy café is housed in a repurposed pharmacy originally built in 1927.

A small laundromat covered wall-to-ceiling with portrait drawings.

At night, this memorial illuminates a ghostly outline of a footbridge that connected two sections of the Warsaw Ghetto.

This park boasts a unusual collection of curious monuments from around the world, from Micronesia to Antarctica.