Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

The site of a prehistoric settlement spanning millennia, complete with a reconstructed timber circle.

This phallic temple was erected in the forest to honor the tragic death of a samurai lord's son.

Approximately 300 million years ago, a massive coral reef existed in what is now the largest limestone cave in Japan.

What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.

Turn around and stick your head between your legs for the best view of this tree-covered sandbar.

A rare example of an ancient Japanese hill castle believed to be the fortress of a legendary demon.

A remote and slightly overgrown park filled with replicas of world landmarks.

A temple made famous by Japanese Buddhist monks who sacrificed themselves at sea.

This small Japanese street is lined with figures, sculptures and a shrine dedicated to frogs.

A kitsch shrine dedicated to the ogre-slaying folktale hero born from a peach.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Considered an enigma by folklorists, an object of primitive animistic worship lives on in Yamanashi.

A giant man-eating crab monster allegedly left its claw marks on this unassuming boulder.

An exact replica of a colossal Olmec head sits atop a pyramid within a Madrid traffic circle.

Among the oldest structures in Madrid, these Moorish walls once guarded the medieval city of Mayrit.

This little sun pays homage to a massive gate that once stood at this location.

This 18th-century project to build the world's tallest gravity dam was never completed.

King Carlos IV laid the first stone during construction of this chapel.

Strange masks and obscure costumes are housed in this old Madrid corrala.

Inside this church are the alleged remains of the patron saint of lovers, epileptics, and beekeepers.