Tokyo, Japan
Shitamachi Museum
A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.
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Tokyo, Japan
A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.
Tokyo, Japan
A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.
Paris, France
Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.
London, England
The world's longest continuously running show has played at this small West End theater since 1974.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.
Tokyo, Japan
Sample specialties from Xinjiang at this Shinjuku neighborhood gem.
London, England
This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.
Tokyo, Japan
A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.
Tallinn, Estonia
This set of concrete chambers resonates according to different notes of octaves.
London, England
A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.
Takayama, Japan
Its collection distills more than 60 years of pop culture in Japan, from Godzilla to Hulk Hogan.
Ishinomaki, Japan
On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.
Kyoto, Japan
The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.
Kitakyushu, Japan
An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.
Vienna, Austria
The housing complex served as an anti-fascist fortress during the Austrian Civil War.
Penteli, Greece
The heads and relics of 179 monks slaughtered by pirates are on display within this Ceonobic Monastery.
Pantelleria, Italy
This ancient walled garden turns fog into food.
Interlaken, Switzerland
A Swiss amusement park entirely dedicated to the theory of ancient astronauts.
Montegabbione (TR), Italy
This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.
Cyprus
This museum in a shuttered train station remembers the island's forgotten rail system.
Reading, England
Soak up some local history in this restored Edwardian era swimming pool.
Lviv, Ukraine
Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.
Altivole, Italy
A visionary Italian architect created an impressive cluster of concrete structures for a family's private tomb.
Spijkenisse, Netherlands
The bridges portrayed on EU currency aren't fictional anymore.