Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

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

A museum in Hokkaido is housed in a former high school. On its grounds a marker shares the awakening of a man who longs to be reunited with his soulmate in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

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

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

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

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

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

This mountain's identity is stuck somewhere between a nightmare and a scenic tourist attraction.

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).

Constructed thousands of years ago, these stone circles offer incredible insight into the lives of the people who built them.

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

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

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

Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.

A derelict New Zealand-themed amusement park in Japan.

Founded over a thousand years ago, this shrine is said to be built on the site of a warlord's harem prison.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.