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The corpse bride of Portugal.

This little-known national museum houses over 40,000 works of art from across the world.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

One of the two original gateways into the Kasbah, this gateway is a nesting site for storks.

The oldest monument in Marrakesh and the city's only surviving example of Almoravid architecture.

A raised Japanese building has preserved 8th-century artifacts for more than a millennium, earning this log cabin a reputation as the "world's oldest museum."

The site where the famous city gate once stood, now in the middle of a playground.

The groundbreaking Japanese shrine maiden who invented the art of kabuki.

This statue of Buddha has a distinctive hairstyle meant to represent an unfathomably long period of meditation.

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

These turtle-shaped concrete stepping stones provide a unique river crossing in central Kyoto.

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

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

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

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

This temple is home to a group of Buddha statues made from thousands of bones and ashes of the deceased.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

Perhaps the world's cheapest vending machines.

This bar is filled with Star Wars merchandise from around the world, all of it unlicensed knockoffs.

A moss-covered statue of a Japanese Buddhist deity stands at a quiet temple in downtown Osaka.

Students pray here in hopes of entering one of Japan’s most prestigious universities.