Sip cherry liqueur at a bar dating back to 1840.

Eat the ultimate iteration of Portugal's most beloved pastry.

This little-known national museum houses over 40,000 works of art from across the world.

In the Monastery of São Vicente resides a gallery devoted to a breathtaking collection of seashells.

Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

A painting marks the site of a historic skyscraper destroyed by the Great Kantō earthquake.

The only Edo-period ferry that is still in operation in Tokyo today.

A hole-in-the-wall antiquities museum in one of Tokyo's most popular megamalls.

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

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

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

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Have a soak at this retro bathhouse, where you will find Japan's first electric bath, tiling from Spain, and wood carvings representing the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.