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.

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

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

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

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

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

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

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.