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

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

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

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

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

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

There are thousands of tributes and memorials to the King, but none quite like this one in a Kraków city park.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

An underground city of salt.

Danish observation tower designed to look like a giant beer bottle.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

Swedish skyscraper with a 90° twist.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.