A sculpture that resurrected the only tree standing following the devastating 2011 tsunami.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

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

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

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

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

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

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

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

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

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

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.