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

This cozy café is housed in a repurposed pharmacy originally built in 1927.

A Japanese shrine to dolls.

This dazzling Art Nouveau mansion is now home to the Modern Art Gallery Subotica.

Religious perseverance and cultural coexistence manifest in an architectural gem that multiple wars couldn't topple.

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

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

Next door to Tokyo DisneySea is a giant sculpture created by Taro Okamoto symbolizing the dynamism of life.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

Take a few seconds to look at this abandoned, art-filled station as you pass by on the subway to Ueno.

According to local legend, an ancient serial killer nicknamed the “Hag” once haunted this pond.

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

This unassuming office building is home to what was once the world's largest pendulum clock.

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

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

Rubbing salt on this small stone dog is said to make wishes come true.

These unique toilets feature transparent glass covered in PDLC film.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

In Portugal, a secluded stretch of untouched natural beauty hides at the bottom of a steep hill.