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The three biggest silent film stars once shot iconic scenes here.

Tatar Russian in origin, the largest mosque in Japan is now an Ottoman-style Turkish culture center.

Exploring crime and punishment in feudal and pre-modern Japan.

You've probably seen these distinctive orange-tiled columns on the big screen.

A relatively obscure antihero from the Marvel Comics universe adorns a wall inside Iceland's main airport.

Since Tokyo's Kiyosu Bridge was inspired by a historic bridge that crossed over the Rhine, this viewing spot is known as a "view of Cologne."

Once the park closes at sunset, the greatest haiku poet of all time moves to face the Sumida River.

A small shrine dedicated to a god of lightning and electronics.

A painting marks the site of a historic skyscraper destroyed by the Great Kantō earthquake.

An homage to Jackie Gleason's bus-driving character from 'The Honeymooners.'

In the middle of a Vienna square, Roman ruins dating back some 2,000 years are on display.

Life-sized statues of two characters from a decades-long Japanese film series stand outside Shibamata station.

In Houston's airport, a cow is properly equipped to jump over the moon.

This bank is widely believed to be the inspiration for the offices of Philip Marlowe, the hardboiled detective featured in a number of Raymond Chandler's stories.

Coins and medals straight from the mint await visitors to this shop in the nation's capital.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

This elevator was built in 1907 to connect two neighborhoods separated by a steep, rocky cliff.

A Baroque mansion with ties to legendary magicians and alchemists.

Peer into this window for an interesting glimpse into the public utilities that make this city run.

Inside this library, the history of Los Angeles is retold through a mural.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

A diminutive statue that was inspired by the sculptor's own daughter.

The lead horse on a Disneyland merry-go-round that is older than the park itself.

The “Coin Cabinet of Dresden” houses a collection of over 300,000 numismatic artifacts, one of the largest of its kind in Europe.