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

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

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

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

A museum dedicated to the least secret spy is actually an attempt to get Hollywood's attention.

The Japanese mayo factory famous for its cute mascot.

After a short 5 year run, this former major theme park sits in ruin.

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

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

Only electricity pylon built over two lanes of traffic.

Birthplace of the Tendai sect and home to the marathon monks.

This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

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

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.

A derelict New Zealand-themed amusement park in Japan.

"Singing sands" and the world's largest hourglass reside near Japan's Kotogahama beach.

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

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

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

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