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

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

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

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

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

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

This battleship of a building was designed by a famed "mad architect."

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

During the Soviet era, the spire of this longstanding church was used as a radio transmission tower.

Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

The oldest church in the Estonian capital is home to over 100 fantastical cemetery coats-of-arms.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

This striking memorial is one of Estonia’s most controversial Soviet leftovers.

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

A medieval setting reimagined into a unique art alley.

Walk along the medieval fortifications that have been protecting Tallinn since the 14th century.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.