This handsomely carved wooden church is more than 800 years old.

The largest bottled beer collection in the world holds over 22,000 unique beer bottles.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

According to this bar, God gave an “11th commandment” to Antwerp: Thou shalt drink beer.

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

The largest collection of model trains in the world is actually run using full-size locomotive technology.

Blowtorches, tuna, and a jolly, chain-smoking proprietor mark this beloved street-food stand.

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

Historical Japanese-Dutch relations are honored with haunted rides and flower fields in this replica town.

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

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

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

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