This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan.

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

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

Mythical beasts symbolizing the city of Tokyo guard a historic bridge.

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

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

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

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

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

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

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.”