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

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

One of Japan's most famous sights, the bridge was originally built in 1673.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

South Korea's largely symbolic, barely used gateway to the North.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

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

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

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

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

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

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader.

The remains of Alfred Nobel's first nitroglycerine factory can still be found on the shores of a Swedish bay.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.