A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

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

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

Local folklore claims that this wall was not built for defense, but to provide labor during a time of famine.

A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

A crucified and bearded female saint.

A Baroque mansion with ties to legendary magicians and alchemists.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

On a river island north of Bangkok, a small bar helped lead a home-brewing rebellion.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

Daikon radishes are offered to the Japanese Buddhist counterpart of the Hindu god Ganesha at this historic hilltop temple.

A 17th-century Shinto shrine that is home to statues of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.