One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

A quaint amusement park now sits, rusting and forgotten among the foliage.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

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

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

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

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

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

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

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

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

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

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

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

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

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

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