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

Constructed thousands of years ago, these stone circles offer incredible insight into the lives of the people who built them.

The world's largest radiation field is probably our best bet for irradiated vegetable superheroes.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

Museum dedicated to the largest battleship ever built.

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

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

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

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

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

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

The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.

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

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.