This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

Here once stood an opulent state guest house that symbolized the Westernization of Japan.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

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

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).

A gorgeous, nostalgic café housed in a lofty old warehouse, lit only by petroleum lamps.

An open-air museum exhibiting a total of 52 century-old buildings, recreating Hokkaido’s “pioneer village.”

The legendary Japanese filmmaker’s tombstone is marked by a single letter meaning “nothing," and bottles of sake.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

If you visit the burial place of King Frederick the Great, you'll likely find a couple of potatoes sitting on his tombstone.

A memorial commemorating the place where Truman gave the order to deploy the first nuclear bombs on Japan.

The home of president Truman during the Potsdam Conference, and the place from which the atomic bomb strike on Japan was triggered.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.