Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

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

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.