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

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

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

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.