Outside of where Tsukiji Market once stood, these memorials honor the spirits of the fallen fish, shrimp, and eggs used for nigiri.

A suburban housing complex with astonishing architectural features, locally nicknamed "the Camemberts."

A well-worshipped shrine to the Virgin Mary nestled inside the last of Zagreb’s historic gates.

An ancient mountain-cut pass runs largely forgotten in the suburbs of Kamakura.

Visit the birthplace of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, poet and author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.'

One of the major cities of Late Roman provinces, now in ruins of small scale.

This tower is one of the best-preserved (and least-visited) remnants of medieval Paris.

The predecessor to this bridge was depicted in a famous Japanese woodcut print that influenced Van Gogh.

This subway station is named after a local legend about supernatural dancing cats.

A replica of an ancient alien-like idol humorously represents spectacles in a corner of this shrine complex.

This one-of-a-kind shrine is dedicated to a girl who was too beautiful for her own good.

An old woman cured cholera in the 1820s and now her grave is said to be the city’s most cursed object.

This 3,000-year-old “opium black fortress” towers over the ancient town named after it.

Archaeologists continue to debate whether this site yielded the oldest human remains in Japan.

The oldest tourist graffiti in the world helped archaeologists identify the Pyramid of Djoser.

This sculptural representation of an Andersen fairy tale had to be pushed away for being too grim.

A slope with a mysterious name recalls a discontinued pre-war energy drink.

A bizarre object of worship believed to grant wishes to those who tie it up with a rope.

This reconstructed castle was once the base of the “Devil King” who almost united the feudal warring states.

In a shopping arcade, a modernized temple deeply tied to feudal Japan’s prominent warlords.

The oft-overlooked site of one of the first marine biological research facilities in the world.

The lesser-known eastern counterpart to Kyoto’s famous fox shrine.

At this Neolithic site, the remains of ancient humans have been found alongside the bones of the toxic fugu pufferfish.

A memorial to the Indian victims of the devastating 1923 earthquake, built in glorious Mughal style.