Once home to one of the oldest banks in the world, this building is also where Marco Polo's famous travelogue was written.

This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.

This 6th-century church honors St. Tudno, the patron saint of Llandudno.

These sculptures were created by a 17th-century artist who had never seen an elephant.

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

The buildings are among the few Frank Lloyd Wright structures still standing in Japan.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

Legend says the goddess this shrine honors curses any couples that pass by.

This “peasant café” in the middle of Tokyo re-creates the atmosphere of the Japanese countryside.

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

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

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

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

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.”

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

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

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

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

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

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.