Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

This cluttered cantina is famed for its cheese-spiked, raisin-flavored liqueur.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

This atmospheric pre-war building is home to one of the few manually operated elevators left in Tokyo.

This monument gives insight into how lost children were found in Edo-period Tokyo.

Mythical beasts symbolizing the city of Tokyo guard a historic bridge.

When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan.

Emerging from the sidewalk, this sculpture of a whale commemorates the importance of baleen in traditional Japanese puppetry.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

A touching statue dedicated to Japan's first therapy dog.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

This elaborately decorated wall is an homage to the history, beauty and lore of the palm tree.

Go inside a revolutionary, cage-less zoo where 35 species live and some of them roam free alongside their human visitors.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.