A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

This ancient burial site was once thought to be the home of a race distinctive to Ainu folklore.

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

These seven moai figures are the world's only sanctioned replicas of the Easter Island originals.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

These Japanese gardens are blankets of light for dark winter nights.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.