1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

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

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

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

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

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

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

This collection of reclaimed landmines acts as both an exhibition of their deadly history and as a shelter for children affected by them.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

An intricately decorated tiny place of worship.

Underground hospital complex constructed by slave laborers during the German occupation of the Channel Islands.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

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

Residential building on the Regents Canal is a breeding ground for creativity and innovation.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

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