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

Underground farm located in a former bank vault deep within the bowels of Tokyo's business district.

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

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

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

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

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

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.