The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

Hanging over one of Japan's "hidden valleys," these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

A stunning hermit's shrine on a steep rocky spur in Northern Italy.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

One of the highest mountain passes in Europe has been ranked among the best driving roads in the world.

Heralded as one of the prettiest castles in all of Czechia.

These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

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

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.