Nara, Japan
Buddha's Nostril
Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Kyoto, Japan
Statue of Izumo-no-Okuni
The groundbreaking Japanese shrine maiden who invented the art of kabuki.
Kyoto, Japan
Okazaki Shrine
The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.
Tokyo, Japan
Godzilla Head
Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.
Kyoto, Japan
Fushimi Inari-taisha Shrine
The 10,000 Torii shrine.
Tokyo, Japan
Omoide Yokocho
Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”
Figueres, Spain
Dalí Theatre and Museum
Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.
Geneva, Switzerland
Treille Promenade
One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.
Berlin, Germany
Design Panoptikum
A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.
Berlin, Germany
Fine Bagels
The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.
Berlin, Germany
Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism
Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.
Berlin, Germany
Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism
A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.
Berlin, Germany
Schöneberg Gasometer
The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum
Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.
Berlin, Germany
Führerbunker Parking Lot
The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.
Geneva, Switzerland
Mère Royaume
On the side of a building, a depiction of the woman who became a local legend by tossing soup out her window.
Hamburg, Germany
German Food Additives Museum
A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.
Geneva, Switzerland
L’horloge Fleurie (The Flower Clock)
The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds.
Geneva, Switzerland
Brunswick Monument
An opulent monument built for a duke who donated his entire fortune to the city of Geneva.
Meyrin, Switzerland
CERN
Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.
Annecy, France
Palais de l’Île
A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.
Washington, D.C.
Man Controlling Trade
A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.
Washington, D.C.
D.C. War Memorial
An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.
Washington, D.C.
Washington Monument Marble Stripe
Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.
