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

This retro café is a remnant of Japan’s post-war Argentine tango craze.

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

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

Rumored to be a giant robot in disguise, this colossal chef has been the beloved symbol of Tokyo’s kitchenware district for decades.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

Since Tokyo's Kiyosu Bridge was inspired by a historic bridge that crossed over the Rhine, this viewing spot is known as a "view of Cologne."

Inside this building is another country within Rome, a sovereign entity without a physical territory.

This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.

A statue commemorating a beloved stray dog who was adopted by the entire neighborhood where he lived.

This sculpture pays homage to the street sweepers of Madrid since its inauguration in 2001 in Plaza Jacinto Benavente.

An automaton perched above an classic clock and watch store

A whimsical brother of the nearby Fallen Angel statue takes the falling part quite literally.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

At the top of the hour, this steam-powered clock's eight brass whistles play "Back Home Again in Indiana."

The building is topped by a Statue of Liberty statue whose torch has stayed burning since the museum opened.

A collection of over 2000 air-moving devices of all kinds displayed in the Fanimation headquarters.

Sweden's largest optical telescope sits on a rooftop in Stockholm.

A scale model of the world's largest existing lensed telescope.

The signatures of esteemed colleagues of the physicists who stopped by to attend lectures.

A 1:42 scale model of the world's second largest lensed telescope.