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Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

A series of modernist, abstract sculptures form a route created as part of the 1968 Olympics' Cultural Olympiad.

In 2008, this Mexico City metro station was the site of an hours-long fight between emo, punk, and goth groups.

This Japanese-inspired park showcases the city's peculiar trends for naming features after foreign rulers.

The last home designed in its entirety by noted architect Luis Barragán owes its existence to an impressive jacaranda tree.

A few steps from the site of the Tlatelolco massacre, this museum tells the story of Mexico's 1968 student protests.