This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

High in the clouds of San Marino sits an ancient tower with some curious prisoner graffiti.

The only Shinto shrine in Europe that has been officially sanctioned by Japan.

The smaller of the three towers of San Marino is a former prison inaccessible from the ground level.

A marine aquarium with an astounding variety of fish hides in the basement beneath the famous Palm House.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

A sculpture of a famous ape who was once a beloved household name in London.

The remains of a historic football stadium that once hosted 50,000 spectators.

The world’s largest magazine collection was born from a single shelf in a teen’s bedroom.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

London's most popular recording studio, located in the capital's East End, runs partly on solar power and has played host to some of the world's biggest acts.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.