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Every spring, this walkway outside the Japan Mint turns into a cherry blossom tunnel.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

The spot where Oxford garnered its name was also home to a medieval philosopher and includes a house covered in statues.

The weathered grave of a medieval anchoress who walled herself up in a cell attached to a church.

According to this bar, God gave an “11th commandment” to Antwerp: Thou shalt drink beer.

Now home to a drinking establishment, this building has a macabre history.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

This 24-hour vending machine serves up homemade treats inspired by the local Japanese snow monkeys.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

Run a wash cycle while sipping a latte at this community-oriented café.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

It is believed that this Buddhist temple stands right on the gateway to the underworld.

Legend has it that centuries ago, a ghost once frequented this candy shop to feed her still-living baby.

The former site of Fukuoka’s legendary ramen joint works hard to guide customers to the “original” original.

This “grave” memorializes the 53 rakugo stories that were once banned by the national censorship.

This quaint mountain pass with centuries-old cobblestones is known as Japan's steepest slope.

Originally built circa 13-14th century, this “snail well” was a resourceful means to draw water in a region where the soil was mostly loam.

A collection of nostalgic items from the Showa era with an exhibit on the local ghost story of the Snow Woman.

An eerie cluster of medieval cave-like tombs carved out of a cliff, hidden in a historic mountain pass.

This futuristic-looking museum was built for the centennial of Japan's most innovative toilet.

Perhaps the world's cheapest vending machines.

Hundreds of plague victims were buried beneath this small, rural church.