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

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

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

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

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.

A massive wintry wall of snow up to 66 feet tall flanks a highway through Japan's mountains.

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

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

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

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”

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

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

A shrine dedicated to the sacred white snakes of Iwakuni, whose albinism has been passed down for generations.

One of Japan's most famous sights, the bridge was originally built in 1673.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.