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

The world’s only museum dedicated to baked beans.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

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

A lesser-known sister to Paris's world-famous museum, located within a Buddhist sculpture paradise.

Have a soak at this retro bathhouse, where you will find Japan's first electric bath, tiling from Spain, and wood carvings representing the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

The water here is so clear you can see the mysteriously sunken ship from the surface.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

This secret Australian garden was built on love after a man planted a random bulb he found in the ocean.