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

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This candy-pink cathedral of Da Nang is also known as the Chicken Church.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

An arts and culture complex that was once a derelict American military installation in the civilian control zone of the DMZ.

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

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

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

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

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

The Incredible Hulk, Yoda, Mulder and Scully, and many many others watch over the mean streets of Toronto.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.