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

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

Emerging from the sidewalk, this sculpture of a whale commemorates the importance of baleen in traditional Japanese puppetry.

Designed by a computer, this intricate network of fluorescent green pipes has taken over a subway station.

A charming, homemade vending machine dispenses burgers and sandwiches at this hole-in-the-wall bakery.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

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

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

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

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

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

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

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.