One of the world's earliest skyscrapers.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

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

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

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

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

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

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

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.