The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

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

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

The 43-mile route crosses through six islands with gorgeous views of the Seto Inland Sea.

This pair of small sea rocks has been "wed" using rope and ancient Shinto tradition.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

The world’s first hotel to be run by robots.

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

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

Museum showcases Japanese sexuality and some amazing ocean views.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.