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

Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

Rare mummified forest could offers a glimpse into how our environment has been changed by humans.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

The scuba diving training facility was named for the steam that rises from the cave's chimney.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.