Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

These sculptures were created by a 17th-century artist who had never seen an elephant.

Is this cat asleep or just pretending?

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

The 43-mile route crosses through six islands with gorgeous views of the Seto Inland Sea.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.