One of the best-preserved remains of "Tokyo's lost rivers."

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

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

This architecturally eclectic early-20th century mosque was built as a place of worship for the Islamic followers of a Jewish messiah.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

This Greek cinema was architecturally inspired by Mussolini's vision of a fascist Mediterranean utopia.

Scores of wax baby figurines add an unusual mood to this beautiful church on the Greek coast.

This black sand beach was crafted from volcanic explosions including the historic Minoan eruption.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.