This modern, multimedia museum takes visitors on an evolutionary journey back in time.

A bizarre philosophy-themed park founded by an occult expert.

Open since 1690, this former teahouse makes “strength mochi” based on the centuries-old recipe.

Visit a speakeasy-like indie cinema specializing in 16mm and 35mm films.

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.

This pair of small sea rocks has been "wed" using rope and ancient Shinto tradition.

One of Japan's most famous sights, the bridge was originally built in 1673.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

Though they've since been renamed, these two streets hint at Dublin's darker days.

This fairytale-looking castle is a wonderful example of Greek neo-Gothic architecture

A tiny Greek Orthodox church from the Ottoman era hides on a busy city street.

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

This graffitied 19th-century building was a prototype of European industrial architecture.

Every spring, locals see the shadowy figures of a ghost army of slain Greek soldiers descend upon this ruined fort.

The site where hundreds of Greeks were tortured by the Nazi secret police is now a cosmetics store.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.