This Norwegian satellite station provides ground services to more satellites than any other facility in the world.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

This seven story Japanese love hotel now stands in ruins.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

The eclectic seaside sanctuary caters to a rather fowl crowd.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

Thousands of years of crashing waves gave this mushroom-shaped rock its svelte figure.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."

Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

This plaza at the end of the world teems with monumental tributes to a problematic history, and laser discs.