A 19th-century perch for spotting sailing ships now boasts one of the most iconic views in the Southern Hemisphere.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Hidden within Sydney’s lush Royal Botanic Garden is a walled cactus rockery and the site of Australia's first zoo.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

A statue of a Scottish cultural icon in central Sydney.

The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

A rare specimen of an iconic extinct animal in downtown Sydney.

Native Australian lizards inhabit this garden celebrating Sydney and its sister city in China.

People can't get enough of these adorable Japanese photobooths.

A special train service transported Sydney's dead from this station to "Necropolis Receiving Houses" at Rookwood Cemetery.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

One of the world's largest tanks mimics the experience of watching rare whale sharks, giant rays, and deep sea creatures from the ocean floor.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

This monumental intersection commemorates the day Okinawa switched to driving on the left.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

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

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

This historic castle is one of the oldest and most impressive in all of Japan.