This bar is filled with Star Wars merchandise from around the world, all of it unlicensed knockoffs.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

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

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

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

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

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

This small corner bar is home to a rare 1930s dance organ that still plays tunes for one Euro.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

A quiet Sicilian village is home to a cafe that had an important role in "The Godfather."

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

In the summer of 1957, a massive architectural exhibition showed off the future of urban living in this German neighborhood.

A statue of an astronomer gazes at the sky as a tribute to Caroline Herschel.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

Known as the Sistine Chapel of Egypt, this tomb houses some of the most well-preserved paintings in Egypt.