This “grave” memorializes the 53 rakugo stories that were once banned by the national censorship.

The decommissioned steam engine’s whistle can still be heard three times a day at one of Japan’s oldest train stations.

The site where the poet Matsuo Bashō read one of the first haiku that comprise his famous travelogue.

Even King Tut was intrigued by the glass of the Great Sand Sea.

The hellish conditions of this abandoned mine that snakes beneath the Pacific Ocean gave it its diabolic name.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.

A jungle cave in Peru of unknown depths, otherworldly sounds, and strange nocturnal birds that navigate by echolocation.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

Inside this Jewish cemetery is a memorial to soldiers who deserted the German army and were executed.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The largest collection of handbags in the world, the oldest of which were used to carry Bibles, primarily by men.

This bird-loving brewery is situated in an old municipal bathhouse, nestled beside a 300-year-old windmill.