This small park holds what remains of a former prison and execution ground.

Next door to Tokyo DisneySea is a giant sculpture created by Taro Okamoto symbolizing the dynamism of life.

Inspired by the famous sculptures on Easter Island, this head serves as a popular meeting spot by Shibuya Station.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

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

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

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

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

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Art and a pun, all in one.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.