Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

This volcanic island in the Pacific just keeps growing and growing.

This beautiful defunct water tower adds a European flair to a traditional Japanese neighborhood.

Disaster prevention apartment blocks in Sumida Ward are designed to save as many as possible in the face of the inevitable.

A museum in Hokkaido is housed in a former high school. On its grounds a marker shares the awakening of a man who longs to be reunited with his soulmate in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

A park built around the legend of a clam-loving giant who created a monumental midden.

Ruins and statues dot the landscape of this tiny island rich with royal history.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

The world's largest radiation field is probably our best bet for irradiated vegetable superheroes.

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."

A dilapidated amusement park with a million-dollar view.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

A statue of a mischievous raccoon towers over this city park.

Constructed thousands of years ago, these stone circles offer incredible insight into the lives of the people who built them.

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

A network of sandy streets lined with verdant fukugi trees weaves throughout this tiny seaside town.

The iconic castle that withstood a magnitude 6.2 earthquake has become a symbol of resilience.