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

Sample specialties from Xinjiang at this Shinjuku neighborhood gem.

Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.

Exploring crime and punishment in feudal and pre-modern Japan.

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

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

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

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

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

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.”

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

Burlesque Hospital Themed Restaurant.

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

The home of famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle is now a library and museum dedicated to his memory.

A collection of old neon signs from all over Poland line a secluded courtyard.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

This now-defunct synthetic fuel plant was once a major cog in the Nazi war machine.

A bronze replica of an elm tree that honors the victims that perished in Pawaik Prison.

People in Poland have rallied to save this unnatural desert from being reclaimed by the forest.

An abandoned football stadium with a tragic past.

Come to this Polish museum to take a good, clean look at filth.

The site of one of the largest prison escapes of World War II.