A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Siddhartha Gautama sat here and received enlightenment.

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

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

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

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.

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.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.