Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

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

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

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

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

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.