These Japanese gardens are blankets of light for dark winter nights.

These seven moai figures are the world's only sanctioned replicas of the Easter Island originals.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

A statue erected on an infamous cliff where young boys would hold dangerous "pee offs" to prove their mettle.

This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.

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

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

This seven story Japanese love hotel now stands in ruins.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000 year old wood at this peaceful site.

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

A sculpture that resurrected the only tree standing following the devastating 2011 tsunami.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

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

The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.