Unruly residents were housed in this one-person cell until the Black Maria arrived.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

These steps were uniquely crafted so Bishop Richard Fox could travel between his home and town.

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

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

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

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

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

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

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Sample specialties from Xinjiang at this Shinjuku neighborhood gem.

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Inside this metro station is a section of the city's former medieval fortification.

A strangely curved lamppost stands tall over this avenue in Rotterdam.

This public library and its impressive collection of academic books have not changed since the 17th century.

A nearly 25-foot concrete sculpture of Sylvette, Picasso's muse.

An ancient Egyptian temple sits within a modern European museum.