A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Peer into this window for an interesting glimpse into the public utilities that make this city run.

The site where the poet Matsuo Bashō read one of the first haiku that comprise his famous travelogue.

Discover the mummified remains of Ancient Egypt in the middle of metropolitan Tokyo.

A few hidden stones are said to bring fortune and love.

Composed of scrap metal, a pair of platform-length murals chronicle Japan’s history, from the Big Bang to the development of modern Tokyo.

A Buddhist temple on an artificial island that houses a monument to the fugu fish.

Take a few seconds to look at this abandoned, art-filled station as you pass by on the subway to Ueno.

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

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

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

A site of pagan worship which still attracts people looking for fairies.

A watering hole from the late 1800s in the heart of the Campsie Fells.