Have a soak at this retro bathhouse, where you will find Japan's first electric bath, tiling from Spain, and wood carvings representing the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

One of the best-preserved remains of "Tokyo's lost rivers."

Exploring crime and punishment in feudal and pre-modern Japan.

A statue meant to celebrate peace has also been interpreted as a mother taking away her son's internet privileges.

The train engine is tucked under an apartment building on a quiet Tokyo street.

Take a few seconds to look at this abandoned, art-filled station as you pass by on the subway to Ueno.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

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

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

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

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.