Turn around and stick your head between your legs for the best view of this tree-covered sandbar.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

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

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

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

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

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

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

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

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.