It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

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

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

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.

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

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

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

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

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

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

Ancient temple is home to centuries of art and spiritual artifacts.

Numerical symbolism abound at East Asia's oldest observatory.

A Korean village where times stands still.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.