Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

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

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

A student driver's nightmare.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

The powerful party began with a secret meeting in this shikumen in 1921.

This bar is home to what's likely the oldest living jazz band in the world.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

This former textile district now is now a thriving center for contemporary Chinese art.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

A son-and-daughter meat market, hawked by mom and dad.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.