This ancient shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years since the eighth century.

A lesser-known sister to Paris's world-famous museum, located within a Buddhist sculpture paradise.

For but one summer in 1975, this rural suburb became a busy tourist spot when a local girl claimed to have seen ghostly faces on an old stele.

A colossal statue of a woman hugging a modern building.

A monument to placate the spirits of an ancient forest.

A Gothic gym and community space that encourages fitness for misfits.

A complex of ancient Buddhist rock-cut caves with a large, well preserved prayer hall.

Inside a former smuggler's cave, an artificial waterfall and light show.

A free park where visitors can learn about and collect 440 million-year-old fossils.

Photographs of the faces of the town's dead cover the walls of this small Italian church.

The ruins of a fifth-century church dedicated to Our Lady of the Harbor.

A mile-long trail of pottery culture, full of clay pipes and lucky cats, including one that’s 12.5 feet tall.

A bronze statue to commemorate an Auckland library's beloved feline resident.

Here lies Hattori Hanzō, a samurai who is remembered as a legendary ninja in today’s popular culture.

Sip a cappuccino in the historic cafe that introduced them to the United States.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

If it feels like a speakeasy, that’s because it probably was one.

Come for the Italian food, stay for the taxidermy and giant statues.

This supper club is a slice of old Las Vegas.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Keen eyes can find the Disney influences throughout this treasure trove of a tiki bar.

A mythological Celtic beast built with thousands of colorful tiles stands guard over a historic canal junction.