Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

This garden located inside a bamboo forest once belonged to a famous Japanese actor.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

The solemn exterior conceals an opulent interior of this 17th century church.

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

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.