An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

The 43-mile route crosses through six islands with gorgeous views of the Seto Inland Sea.

Museum showcases Japanese sexuality and some amazing ocean views.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

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

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

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

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

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A former military hospital is now used to study and preserve artifacts of the Acropolis.

This tower is all that remains of the mosque that once stood in the center of the city, before it was destroyed by fire in 1941.

One of the best collections of Byzantine art housed in a magnificent, 19th-century neoclassical home.

This building displays the scars of the “Dekemvriana,” a dark time in modern Greek history.

This Greek cinema was architecturally inspired by Mussolini's vision of a fascist Mediterranean utopia.

This quaint farm in the Peloponnese countryside hides an astonishing cache of antique curiosities.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

Scars of this building's past life as a violent prison still cover its walls.

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.