Kyoto, Japan
Sanjūsangen-dō
1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.
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Kyoto, Japan
Nishiki Market
This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.
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Kyoto, Japan
Ukiyoe Small Museum
A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.
Kyoto, Japan
Fushimi Inari-taisha Shrine
The 10,000 Torii shrine.
Nara, Japan
Tōdai-ji Daibutsuden (The Great Buddha Hall)
This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.
Kyoto, Japan
Sagano Bamboo Forest
The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.
Kyoto, Japan
Ryōan-ji
The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.
Kyoto, Japan
Tenryu-Ji Shrine's Bamboo Trail
A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.
Kyoto, Japan
Kiyomizu-Dera Temple
A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.
Kyoto, Japan
Yasui Kompira-gu Shrine
Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.
Tokyo, Japan
The Giant Ghibli Clock
Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.
Nuremberg, Germany
Ehekarussell
This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.
Nuremberg, Germany
Nuremberg Castle
A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Dinosaur of Ta Prohm
Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?
Kampong Thom, Cambodia
Cambodia Landmine Museum
This collection of reclaimed landmines acts as both an exhibition of their deadly history and as a shelter for children affected by them.
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Ta Prohm
A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.
Bangkok, Thailand
Erawan Shrine
A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.
Les Vauxbelets, Guernsey
The Little Chapel
An intricately decorated tiny place of worship.
Guernsey
German Military Underground Hospital
Underground hospital complex constructed by slave laborers during the German occupation of the Channel Islands.
London, England
The Oval Space
This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.
London, England
The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
London, England
Lime Wharf
Residential building on the Regents Canal is a breeding ground for creativity and innovation.
London, England
V&A Museum of Childhood
A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.
London, England
Leadenhall Market
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
