Kyoto, Japan
Nishiki Market
This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.
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Kyoto, Japan
This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.
Yakushima, Japan
The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'
Tokyo, Japan
An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.
Kathmandu, Nepal
This historic square in Nepal is home to temples dating back to the third century.
Kyiv, Ukraine
This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum.
Warsaw, Poland
A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.
Porto, Portugal
Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.
Barcelona, Spain
This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
An 18-meter-long sarcophagus of a constantly growing dead prophet.
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.
Al-Shikhan, Iraq
The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.
Erbil, Iraq
An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.
Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
A bloody history is captured in this former prison turned museum.
Ivankivs'kyi district, Ukraine
This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.
London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.
Birmingham, England
England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.
Rome, Italy
The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.
Hanoi, Vietnam
Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.
Boston, Massachusetts
American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.
Porto, Portugal
Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.