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

The vintage, artistic cage of the city’s first lift welcomes visitors to an old heritage building.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

A seemingly out-of-place comic book surprise sits on the 21st floor of the tallest university library in the world. 

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

A 19th-century British industrialist built this Louis XIII–inspired chateau for his homesick French wife.

For those late-night mollusk cravings.

More than 100 antique vending machines housed in a used tire shop sell everything from candy to sake and ramen.

Perhaps the world's cheapest vending machines.

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

This medieval manor house was hastily fortified when it found itself in the middle of the Scottish fight for independence.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

This curious Tudor-era castle was once home to Napoleon's greatest adversary, the Duke of Wellington.

One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.

Designed by Horace Trumbauer in 1893, this Gothic-style castle is now a home for academics.

This pair of eccentric Ohio castles were built by a pair of brothers who wanted to bring a bit of class to the Ohio wilderness.

Northern Europe’s largest castle ruins sit precariously on an island cliffside.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."