Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Sip “liquid cuisine” made with meat, vegetables, and insects.

View Japan's most historic city from a cyberpunk walkway suspended 150 feet above the ground.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

Existing for more than four centuries, the last of Hakone’s historic teahouses serves a sweet, mold-based rice drink.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

Luminaries from Albert Einstein to John Lennon once had a cup of coffee at Tokyo's oldest café.

This museum showcases the art of ancient sword-making.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

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

Founded in 1880, this humble brewery still practices a disappearing technique of sake-making.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Nicknamed the "Museum of Horrors," this French anatomical collection has been fascinating visitors for over a century.