Existing for more than four centuries, the last of Hakone’s historic teahouses serves a sweet, mold-based rice drink.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

Barbies stare from the walls, sit on the tables, and even pop out of cakes at this quirky cafe.

The haunting remains of a beautiful old plant nursery founded in the 1850s.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Europe's largest natural bridge has a 19th century royal chateau built into its side.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

This odd museum/art gallery embraces the physiological, zoological, and ethnographic side of sex.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.