Chronicling the history of Thailand’s unique currencies, from the silver “bullet money” to porcelain gambling tokens of various shapes.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

An LED art installation composed of 600 poles wrapped in kimono fabric.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This compact temple is filled with garlands of colorful balls that represent restrained monkeys.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

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

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

A lonely chimpanzee lures you into a narrow alley leading to this hidden shrine.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

This windmill has been grinding pigments for traditional paints for more than 200 years.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

This old KLM airplane cut into three parts was transformed into an eclectic airport gift shop.

The largest flower auction house in the world.

Despite the name, this 16th-century structure in Galway wasn't built by the Spanish.