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

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.

This seven story Japanese love hotel now stands in ruins.

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

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

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

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

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

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000 year old wood at this peaceful site.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.

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

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

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

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

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.