The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

This seven story Japanese love hotel now stands in ruins.

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

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

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

An anthropological theme park that depicts the cultures of around 20 different countries.

A collection of more than 1,000 teddies from nearly any profession.

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

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

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

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

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

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

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).

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

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

Historical Japanese-Dutch relations are honored with haunted rides and flower fields in this replica town.

This giant bronze Buddha, the third largest in Japan, is the last in an ill-fated series of statues.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.