Long before ultrasounds and modern testing, medical specimens like these conjoined twins helped physicians learn about congenital anomalies.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

The Ranger’s House exhibits fine mementos collected by Sir Julius Werner during the course of his life, including this infamous pendant.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

Exploring crime and punishment in feudal and pre-modern Japan.

The only Edo-period ferry that is still in operation in Tokyo today.

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”

This battleship of a building was designed by a famed "mad architect."

Visitors to this park are welcomed by an ancient Japanese megalithic tomb that dates back to the sixth century.

One of the few surviving World War II-era air-raid shelters in Tokyo.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

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

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

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

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

A giant interactive periodic table with real samples of the elements.