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Badrshein, Egypt

South Pavilion Graffiti

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

Statue of James Henry Greathead

This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.
Durrës, Albania

Durrës Byzantine Forum

One of the best examples of a Byzantine period monument in Albania.
Tokyo, Japan

Shibarare Jizoson

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

Odoriba Station

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

Indian Drinking Fountain

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

Café Paulista

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

Kigakurin Banshōji Temple

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

‘Death and the Mother’

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

Der Kleine Elefant

This small, easily-overlooked sculpture recalls the first time Graz saw a live elephant.
Vienna, Austria

Café Sperl

Royals, rebels, and artists have all conversed at this grand 19th-century Viennese coffee house.
Ichikawa, Japan

Tekona Reijindo

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

Ubayama Shell Mound

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

Thirty-Three Avatars of Kannon

In the former treasury of a popular temple, a rare sculptural depiction of Kannon’s diverse avatars.
Kamakura, Japan

Jinde

A mysterious, perhaps haunted plot of land, untouched by modern development.
Fujisawa, Japan

Ryuren no Kane

A romantic escape inspired by the legend of a child-eating five-headed dragon.
Fujisawa, Japan

Morse Seaside Laboratory Site

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

Ochobamba

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

Sagami River Bridge Ruins

These medieval wooden bridge pillars appeared out of nowhere in the aftermath of a huge earthquake.
Hiratsuka, Japan

Chonmage-zuka

The burial site of 16 men’s hair buns, which were lopped off in place of their heads.
Kodaira, Japan

Tokyo Metropolitan Medicinal Botanical Garden

Home to a garden of poisonous plants and the only legal cannabis and opium farms in Tokyo.
Nishitokyo, Japan

Higashi-Fushimi Inari Shrine

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

'Havfrue' ('Mermaid')

Copenhagen's "other" little mermaid marks the historic location of past sea maid sightings.
Moriya, Japan

Haunted Acala Stele of Moriya

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.