This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.

A poignant museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

This now abandoned restaurant provides some of the most amazing views of Lisboa.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

For more than two centuries, the canopy of this venerable tree has been a haven for songbirds and lovers.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.